Fmax

Defined in header <cmath>.

Description

Returns the larger of two floating point arguments, treating NaNs as missing data (between a NaN and a numeric value, the numeric value is chosen). The library provides overloads of std::fmax for all cv-unqualified floating-point types as the type of the parameters x and y.

Declarations

C++23

// 1)
constexpr /* floating-point-type */
            fmax ( /* floating-point-type */ x,
                   /* floating-point-type */ y );
// 2)
constexpr float       fmaxf( float x, float y );
// 3)
constexpr long double fmaxl( long double x, long double y );

Additional Overloads

// 4)
template< class Arithmetic1, class Arithmetic2 >
constexpr /* common-floating-point-type */ fmax( Arithmetic1 x, Arithmetic2 y );

C++11

// 1)
float fmax ( float x, float y );
// 2)
double fmax ( double x, double y );
// 3)
long double fmax ( long double x, long double y );
// 4)
float fmaxf( float x, float y );
// 5)
long double fmaxl( long double x, long double y );

Additional Overloads

// 6)
template< class Arithmetic1, class Arithmetic2 >
/* common-floating-point-type */ fmax( Arithmetic1 x, Arithmetic2 y );

Parameters

x,y - floating-point or integer values

Return value

If successful, returns the larger of two floating point values. The value returned is exact and does not depend on any rounding modes.

Error handling

This function is not subject to any of the error conditions specified in math_errhandling.

If the implementation supports IEEE floating-point arithmetic (IEC 60559):

If one of the two arguments is NaN, the value of the other argument is returned Only if both arguments are NaN, NaN is returned

Notes

This function is not required to be sensitive to the sign of zero, although some implementations additionally enforce that if one argument is +0 and the other is -0, then +0 is returned.

The additional overloads are not required to be provided exactly as Additional Overloads. They only need to be sufficient to ensure that for their first argument num1 and second argument num2:

If num1 or num2 has type long double, then
std::fmax(num1, num2) has the same effect as
​std::fmax(static_cast<long double>(num1), static_cast<long double>(num2)).

Otherwise, if num1 and/or num2 has type double or an integer type, then
std::fmax(num1, num2) has the same effect as
​std::fmax(static_cast<double>(num1), static_cast<double>(num2)).

​Otherwise, if num1 or num2 has type float, then
std::fmax(num1, num2) has the same effect as
​std::fmax(static_cast<float>(num1), static_cast<float>(num2)).  (until C++23)

If num1 and num2 have arithmetic types, then
std::fmax(num1, num2) has the same effect as
std::fmax(static_cast</* common-floating-point-type */>(num1), static_cast</* common-floating-point-type */>(num2))

where /* common-floating-point-type */ is the floating-point type with the greatest floating-point conversion rank and greatest floating-point conversion subrank between the types of num1 and num2, arguments of integer type are considered to have the same floating-point conversion rank as double.

If no such floating-point type with the greatest rank and subrank exists, then overload resolution does not result in a usable candidate from the overloads provided

Examples

#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
 
int main()
{
    std::cout 
        << "fmax(2,1)    = " 
        << std::fmax(2, 1) << '\n'
        << "fmax(-Inf,0) = " 
        << std::fmax(-INFINITY, 0) << '\n'
        << "fmax(NaN,-1) = " 
        << std::fmax(NAN, -1) << '\n';
}

Result

fmax(2,1)    = 2
fmax(-Inf,0) = 0
fmax(NaN,-1) = -1