creal(3) get real part of a complex number

Other Alias

crealf, creall

SYNOPSIS

#include <complex.h>

double creal(double complex z);
float crealf(float complex z);
long double creall(long double complex z);

Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION

These functions return the real part of the complex number z.

One has:

    z = creal(z) + I * cimag(z)

VERSIONS

These functions first appeared in glibc in version 2.1.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
InterfaceAttributeValue
creal(), crealf(), creall() Thread safetyMT-Safe

CONFORMING TO

C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES

The gcc supports also __real__. That is a GNU extension.

COLOPHON

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