ceil(3) Library Functions Manual ceil(3)
NAME
ceil, ceilf, ceill - ceiling function: smallest integral value not less
than argument
LIBRARY
Math library (libm, -lm)
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
double ceil(double x);
float ceilf(float x);
long double ceill(long double x);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
ceilf(), ceill():
_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
These functions return the smallest integral value that is not less than
x.
For example, ceil(0.5) is 1.0, and ceil(-0.5) is 0.0.
RETURN VALUE
These functions return the ceiling of x.
If x is integral, +0, -0, NaN, or infinite, x itself is returned.
ERRORS
No errors occur.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ ceil(), ceilf(), ceill() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
SUSv2 and POSIX.1-2001 contain text about overflow (which might set er-
rno to ERANGE, or raise an FE_OVERFLOW exception). In practice, the re-
sult cannot overflow on any current machine, so this error-handling
stuff was just nonsense. (More precisely, overflow can happen only when
the maximum value of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa
bits. For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point num-
bers the maximum value of the exponent is 127 (respectively, 1023), and
the number of mantissa bits including the implicit bit is 24 (respec-
tively, 53).) This was removed in POSIX.1-2008.
The integral value returned by these functions may be too large to store
in an integer type (int, long, etc.). To avoid an overflow, which will
produce undefined results, an application should perform a range check
on the returned value before assigning it to an integer type.
SEE ALSO
floor(3), lrint(3), nearbyint(3), rint(3), round(3), trunc(3)
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