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creall(3)

creall3

Get real part of a complex number

Part of creal(3).

Usage

double creal(double complex z); float crealf(float complex z); long double creall(long double complex z);

Library

Math library (libm, -lm)

Overview

These functions return the real part of the complex number z.

One has:

    z = creal(z) + I * cimag(z)

Attributes

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

InterfaceAttributeValue
creal(), crealf(), creall()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Versions

GCC supports also __real__. That is a GNU extension.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
  • Debian 4.0 (Etch)
  • Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

glibc 2.1. C99, POSIX.1-2001.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.