NAME

acos, acosf, acosl — arc cosine functions

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double acos(double x);
float acosf(float x);
long double acosl(long double x);


DESCRIPTION

^[CX] The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2024 defers to the ISO C standard.

These functions shall compute the principal value of the arc cosine of their argument x. The value of x should be in the range [-1,1].

An application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to zero and call feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before calling these functions. On return, if errno is non-zero or fetestexcept(FE_INVALID | FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_OVERFLOW | FE_UNDERFLOW) is non-zero, an error has occurred.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, these functions shall return the arc cosine of x, in the range [0,ℼ] radians.

For finite values of x not in the range [-1,1], a domain error shall occur, and ^[MX]  either a NaN (if supported), or  an implementation-defined value shall be returned.

^[MX] If x is NaN, a NaN shall be returned.

If x is +1, +0 shall be returned.

If x is ±Inf, a domain error shall occur, and a NaN shall be returned.

ERRORS

These functions shall fail if:

Domain Error

The x argument is finite and is not in the range [-1,1], ^[MX]  or is ±Inf.

If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) is non-zero, then errno shall be set to [EDOM]. If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) is non-zero, then the invalid floating-point exception shall be raised.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

On error, the expressions (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) and (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) are independent of each other, but at least one of them must be non-zero.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

cos, feclearexcept, fetestexcept, isnan

XBD 4.23 Treatment of Error Conditions for Mathematical Functions, <math.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 1. Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID.

Issue 5

The DESCRIPTION is updated to indicate how an application should check for an error. This text was previously published in the APPLICATION USAGE section.

Issue 6

The acosf() and acosl() functions are added for alignment with the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard.

The DESCRIPTION, RETURN VALUE, ERRORS, and APPLICATION USAGE sections are revised to align with the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard.

IEC 60559:1989 standard floating-point extensions over the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard are marked.

Issue 7

POSIX.1-2008, Technical Corrigendum 1, XSH/TC1-2008/0024 [320] is applied.