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creal, crealf, creall - get real part of a complex number

Math library (libm, -lm)

#include <complex.h>
double creal(double complex z);float crealf(float complex z);long double creall(long double complex z);

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

One has:


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

These functions were added in glibc 2.1.

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
creal (), crealf (), creall ()Thread safetyMT-Safe

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

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

cabs(3), cimag(3), complex(7)

2022-12-15Linux man-pages 6.03