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6 .TH vpow_ 3MVEC "16 Jan 2009" "SunOS 5.11" "Vector Math Library Functions"
8 vpow_, vpowf_ \- vector power functions
12 cc [ \fIflag\fR\&.\|.\|. ] \fIfile\fR\&.\|.\|. \fB-lmvec\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR\&.\|.\|. ]
14 \fBvoid\fR \fBvpow_\fR(\fBint *\fR\fIn\fR, \fBdouble * restrict\fR \fIx\fR, \fBint *\fR\fIstridex\fR,
15 \fBdouble * restrict\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint *\fR\fIstridey\fR, \fBdouble * restrict\fR \fIz\fR,
16 \fBint *\fR\fIstridez\fR);
21 \fBvoid\fR \fBvpowf_\fR(\fBint *\fR\fIn\fR, \fBfloat * restrict\fR \fIx\fR, \fBint *\fR\fIstridex\fR,
22 \fBfloat * restrict\fR \fIy\fR, \fBint *\fR\fIstridey\fR, \fBfloat * restrict\fR \fIz\fR,
23 \fBint *\fR\fIstridez\fR);
29 These functions evaluate the function \fBpow\fR(\fIx\fR, \fIy\fR) for an entire
30 vector of values at once. The first parameter specifies the number of values to
31 compute. Subsequent parameters specify the argument and result vectors. Each
32 vector is described by a pointer to the first element and a stride, which is
33 the increment between successive elements.
36 Specifically, \fBvpow_\fR(\fIn\fR, \fIx\fR, \fIsx\fR, \fIy\fR, \fIsy\fR,
37 \fIz\fR, \fIsz\fR) computes \fIz\fR[\fIi\fR * *\fIsz\fR] =
38 \fBpow\fR(\fIx\fR[\fIi\fR * *\fIsx\fR], \fIy\fR[\fIi\fR * *\fIsy\fR]) for each
39 \fIi\fR = 0, 1, ..., *\fIn\fR - 1. The \fBvpowf_()\fR function performs the
40 same computation for single precision data.
43 These functions are not guaranteed to deliver results that are identical to the
44 results of the \fBpow\fR(3M) functions given the same arguments.
45 Non-exceptional results, however, are accurate to within a unit in the last
50 The element count *\fIn\fR must be greater than zero. The strides for the
51 argument and result arrays can be arbitrary integers, but the arrays themselves
52 must not be the same or overlap. A zero stride effectively collapses an entire
53 vector into a single element. A negative stride causes a vector to be accessed
54 in descending memory order, but note that the corresponding pointer must still
55 point to the first element of the vector to be used; if the stride is negative,
56 this will be the highest-addressed element in memory. This convention differs
57 from the Level 1 BLAS, in which array parameters always refer to the
58 lowest-addressed element in memory even when negative increments are used.
61 These functions assume that the default round-to-nearest rounding direction
62 mode is in effect. On x86, these functions also assume that the default
63 round-to-64-bit rounding precision mode is in effect. The result of calling a
64 vector function with a non-default rounding mode in effect is undefined.
67 The results of these functions for special cases and exceptions match that of
68 the \fBpow()\fR functions when the latter are used in a program compiled with
69 the \fBcc\fR compiler driver (that is, not SUSv3-conforming) and the expression
70 (\fBmath_errhandling\fR & \fBMATH_ERREXCEPT\fR) is non-zero. These functions do
71 not set \fBerrno\fR. See \fBpow\fR(3M) for the results for special cases.
74 An application wanting to check for exceptions should call
75 \fBfeclearexcept\fR(\fBFE_ALL_EXCEPT\fR) before calling these functions. On
76 return, if \fBfetestexcept\fR(\fBFE_INVALID\fR | \fBFE_DIVBYZERO\fR |
77 \fBFE_OVERFLOW\fR | \fBFE_UNDERFLOW\fR) is non-zero, an exception has been
78 raised. The application can then examine the result or argument vectors for
79 exceptional values. Some vector functions can raise the inexact exception even
80 if all elements of the argument array are such that the numerical results are
85 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
94 ATTRIBUTE TYPE
\aATTRIBUTE VALUE
96 Interface Stability
\aCommitted
104 \fBpow\fR(3M), \fBfeclearexcept\fR(3M), \fBfetestexcept\fR(3M),