std::signbit - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

Defined in header
(1)
bool signbit( float num ); bool signbit( double num ); bool signbit( long double num ); (since C++11) (until C++23)
constexpr bool signbit( /*floating-point-type*/ num ); (since C++23)
SIMD overload (since C++26)
Defined in header
template< /*math-floating-point*/ V > constexpr typename /*deduced-simd-t*/<V>::mask_type signbit ( const V& v_num ); (S) (since C++26)
Additional overloads
Defined in header
template< class Integer > bool signbit( Integer num ); (A) (since C++11) (constexpr since C++23)
  1. Determines if the given floating point number num is negative. The library provides overloads for all cv-unqualified floating-point types as the type of the parameter num.(since C++23)

A) Additional overloads are provided for all integer types, which are treated as double.

[edit] Parameters

num - floating-point or integer value
v_num - a data-parallel object of std::basic_simd specialization where its element type is a floating-point type

[edit] Return value

  1. true if num is negative, false otherwise.

S) A data-parallel mask object where the ith element equals true if v_num[i] is negative or false otherwise for all i in the range [​0​, v_num.size()).

[edit] Notes

This function detects the sign bit of zeroes, infinities, and NaNs. Along with std::copysign, std::signbit is one of the only two portable ways to examine the sign of a NaN.

The additional overloads are not required to be provided exactly as (A). They only need to be sufficient to ensure that for their argument num of integer type, std::signbit(num) has the same effect as std::signbit(static_cast<double>(num)).

[edit] Example

#include #include   int main() { std::cout << std::boolalpha << "signbit(+0.0) = " << std::signbit(+0.0) << '\n' << "signbit(-0.0) = " << std::signbit(-0.0) << '\n' << "signbit(+nan) = " << std::signbit(+NAN) << '\n' << "signbit(-nan) = " << std::signbit(-NAN) << '\n' << "signbit(+inf) = " << std::signbit(+INFINITY) << '\n' << "signbit(-inf) = " << std::signbit(-INFINITY) << '\n'; }

Output:

signbit(+0.0) = false signbit(-0.0) = true signbit(+nan) = false signbit(-nan) = true signbit(+inf) = false signbit(-inf) = true

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