Return true if the sign bit of number is set.

Synopsis

Declared in <bdlb_float.h>

static
bool
signBit(float number);

Description

This function is equivalent to the signbit macro in C99. Note that this function will return true for some NaNs, even though the concepts of negative and positive do not apply to NaNs.

Return Value

true if the sign bit of number is set, and false otherwise

Parameters

Name

Description

number

floating‐point value to test

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