sincos(3) — Linux manual page
sincos(3) Library Functions Manual sincos(3)
NAME
sincos, sincosf, sincosl - calculate sin and cos simultaneously
LIBRARY
Math library (libm, -lm)
SYNOPSIS
#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <math.h>
void sincos(double x, double *sin, double *cos);
void sincosf(float x, float *sin, float *cos);
void sincosl(long double x, long double *sin, long double *cos);
DESCRIPTION
Several applications need sine and cosine of the same angle x.
These functions compute both at the same time, and store the
results in *sin and *cos. Using this function can be more
efficient than two separate calls to sin(3) and cos(3).
If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned in *sin and *cos.
If x is positive infinity or negative infinity, a domain error
occurs, and a NaN is returned in *sin and *cos.
RETURN VALUE
These functions return void.
ERRORS
See math_error(7) for information on how to determine whether an
error has occurred when calling these functions.
The following errors can occur:
Domain error: x is an infinity
errno is set to EDOM (but see BUGS). An invalid floating-
point exception (FE_INVALID) is raised.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ sincos(), sincosf(), sincosl() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
STANDARDS
GNU.
HISTORY
glibc 2.1.
NOTES
To see the performance advantage of sincos(), it may be necessary
to disable gcc(1) built-in optimizations, using flags such as:
cc -O -lm -fno-builtin prog.c
BUGS
Before glibc 2.22, the glibc implementation did not set errno to
EDOM when a domain error occurred.
SEE ALSO
cos(3), sin(3), tan(3)
COLOPHON
This page is part of the man-pages (Linux kernel and C library
user-space interface documentation) project. Information about
the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING⟩.
This page was obtained from the tarball man-pages-6.9.1.tar.gz
fetched from
⟨https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/⟩ on
2024-06-26. If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML
version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-
to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or
improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not
part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 sincos(3)
Pages that refer to this page: cos(3), sin(3)