NAME

imaxabs — returns absolute value

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <inttypes.h>

intmax_t
imaxabs(intmax_t j);

DESCRIPTION

The imaxabs() function returns the absolute value of j.

SEE ALSO

abs(3), fabs(3), hypot(3), labs(3), llabs(3), math(3)

STANDARDS

The imaxabs() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (“ISO C99”).

HISTORY

The imaxabs() function first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.

BUGS

The absolute value of the most negative integer remains negative.