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    FABS

    WillieBy WillieFebruary 24, 2026Updated:February 24, 2026No Comments1 Min Read
     

    NAME

    fabs, fabsf, fabsl – absolute value of floating-point number  

    SYNOPSIS

    #include <math.h>
    
    double fabs(double x);
    
    float fabsf(float x);
    long double fabsl(long double x);

    Link with -lm.

    Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

    fabsf(), fabsl():

    _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
    or cc -std=c99
     

    DESCRIPTION

    These functions return the absolute value of the floating-point number x.  

    RETURN VALUE

    These functions return the absolute value of x.

    If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.

    If x is -0, +0 is returned.

    If x is negative infinity or positive infinity, positive infinity is returned.  

    ERRORS

    No errors occur.  

    ATTRIBUTES

     

    Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

    The fabs(), fabsf(), and fabsl() functions are thread-safe.  

    CONFORMING TO

    C99, POSIX.1-2001. The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.  

    COLOPHON

    This page is part of release 3.74 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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