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fminf(3)

fminf3

Determine minimum of two floating-point numbers

Part of fmin(3).

Usage

double fmin(double x, double y); float fminf(float x, float y); long double fminl(long double x, long double y);

_ISOC99_SOURCE { | | _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L}

Library

Math library (libm, -lm)

Overview

These functions return the lesser value of x and y.

Return value

These functions return the minimum of x and y.

If one argument is a NaN, the other argument is returned.

If both arguments are NaN, a NaN is returned.

Errors

No errors occur.

Attributes

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

InterfaceAttributeValue
fmin(), fminf(), fminl()Thread safetyMT-Safe

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.