1 .\" @(#)abs.3 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
3 .TH ABS 3 "May 15, 1985"
6 abs \- integer absolute value
17 returns the absolute value of its integer operand.
21 Applying the \fIabs\fP function to the most negative integer generates a
22 result which is the most negative integer. That is, abs(0x80000000)
23 returns 0x80000000 as a result on a machine with 32-bit ints. Using the
24 result in unsigned computations is sound however.