All math.h functions handle errors similarly.
In the case that the argument passed to the function exceeds
the range of that function, then the variable errno
is set to EDOM . The value that the function
returns is implementation specific.
In the case that the value being returned is too large to be
represented in a double, then the function returns the macro
HUGE_VAL , and sets the variable
errno to ERANGE to represent an
overflow. If the value is too small to be represented in a
double, then the function returns zero. In this case whether or
not errno is set to ERANGE
is implementation specific.
errno , EDOM , and
ERANGE are defined in the errno.h header.
Note that in all cases when it is stated that there is no
range limit, it is implied that the value is limited by the
minimum and maximum values of type double.
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