values(5)              MISC. FILE FORMATS               values(5)



NAME
     values - machine-dependent values

SYNOPSIS
     #include <values.h>

DESCRIPTION
     This file contains a set of manifest  constants,  condition-
     ally  defined  for  particular processor architectures.  The
     model assumed for integers is binary  representation  (one's
     or  two's  complement), where the sign is represented by the
     value of the high-order bit.

     BITS(type)    The number of bits in a specified type  (e.g.,
                   int).

     HIBITS        The value of a short  integer  with  only  the
                   high-order bit set.

     HIBITL        The value of a  long  integer  with  only  the
                   high-order bit set.

     HIBITI        The value of a regular integer with  only  the
                   high-order bit set.

     MAXSHORT      The maximum value of a signed short integer.

     MAXLONG       The maximum value of a signed long integer.

     MAXINT        The maximum value of a signed regular integer.

     MAXFLOAT, LNMAXFLOAT
                   The  maximum  value  of   a   single-precision
                   floating-point  number,  and its natural loga-
                   rithm.

     MAXDOUBLE, LNMAXDOUBLE
                   The  maximum  value  of   a   double-precision
                   floating-point  number,  and its natural loga-
                   rithm.

     MINFLOAT, LNMINFLOAT
                   The  minimum  positive  value  of  a   single-
                   precision   floating-point   number,  and  its
                   natural logarithm.

     MINDOUBLE, LNMINDOUBLE
                   The  minimum  positive  value  of  a   double-
                   precision   floating-point   number,  and  its
                   natural logarithm.

     FSIGNIF       The number of significant bits in the mantissa



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                   of a single-precision floating-point number.

     DSIGNIF       The number of significant bits in the mantissa
                   of a double-precision floating-point number.

SEE ALSO
     intro(3), math(5).
















































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