exp(), expf(), expl()

Arguments:

x

The number for which you want to calculate the exponential.

Library:

libm

The general-purpose math library.

libm-sve

A library that optimizes the code for ARMv8.2 chips that have Scalable Vector Extension hardware.

Your system requirements will determine how you should work with these libraries:

• If you want only selected processes to run with the SVE version, you can include both libraries in your OS image and use the -l m or -l m-sve option to qcc to link explicitly against the appropriate one.
• If you want all processes to use the SVE version, include libm-sve.so in your OS image and set up a symbolic link from libm.so to libm-sve.so. Use the -l m option to qcc to link against the library.

Description:

These functions compute the exponential function of x (i.e., e^x).

To check for error situations, use feclearexcept() and fetestexcept(). For example:

• Call feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before calling exp(), expf(), or expl().
• On return, if fetestexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) is nonzero, then an error has occurred.

Returns:

The exponential value of x.

These functions raise FE_INEXACT if the FPU reports that the result can't be exactly represented as a floating-point number.

Examples:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <fenv.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main( void )
{
    int except_flags;

    feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT);

    printf( "%f\n", exp(.5) );

    except_flags = fetestexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT);
    if(except_flags) {
        /* An error occurred; handle it appropriately. */
    }

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

produces the output:

1.648721

Classification:

C11, POSIX 1003.1

Caveats:

The value of expm1(x) may be more accurate than exp(x) - 1.0 for small values of x.