acos

Synopsis

#include <math.h>

double acos(double x);

float acosf(float x);

long double acosl(long double x);

Status

Partially implemented

Conformance

IEEE Std 1003.1-2017

Description

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, pi] radians.

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

• 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], 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.

Tests

Untested

Known bugs

None

See Also

1. Standard library functions
2. Table of Contents