fmod(3)                                               Library Functions Manual                                              fmod(3)

NAME
       fmod, fmodf, fmodl - floating-point remainder function

LIBRARY
       Math library (libm, -lm)

SYNOPSIS
       #include <math.h>

       double fmod(double x, double y);
       float fmodf(float x, float y);
       long double fmodl(long double x, long double y);

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

       fmodf(), fmodl():
           _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
               || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
               || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       These functions compute the floating-point remainder of dividing x by y.  The return value is x - n * y, where n is the quo‐
       tient of x / y, rounded toward zero to an integer.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, these functions return the value x - n*y, for some integer n, such that the returned value has the same sign  as
       x and a magnitude less than the magnitude of y.

       If x or y is a NaN, a NaN is returned.

       If x is an infinity, a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned.

       If y is zero, a domain error occurs, and a NaN is returned.

       If x is +0 (-0), and y is not zero, +0 (-0) is returned.

ERRORS
       See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions.

       The following errors can occur:

       Domain error: x is an infinity
              errno is set to EDOM (but see BUGS).  An invalid floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised.

       Domain error: y is zero
              errno is set to EDOM.  An invalid floating-point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised.

ATTRIBUTES
       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface                                                                                        │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │fmod(), fmodf(), fmodl()                                                                         │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

STANDARDS
       C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

       The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD.

BUGS
       Before glibc 2.10, the glibc implementation did not set errno to EDOM when a domain error occurred for an infinite x.

SEE ALSO
       remainder(3)

Linux man-pages 6.03                                         2023-02-05                                                     fmod(3)