Is fabsf part of the std namespace in C++11?

Question

The page https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/fabs mentions that std::fabsf is available since C++11. However, when I use G++ 6.3.0 to compile even th

Answer 1

It looks like cppreference is incorrect. It appears this was added for C++17 since it was added to the draft in 2016 with the title [numerics] Apply P0175 (C Synopses) and we can see p0175r1 does indeed add:

 float fabsf(float x);

The libc++ status does not indicate a status for p0175r1 so that would indicate that it does not support these changes yet. I can't find a line item for the proposal in tjhe libstdc++ status page.

Answer 2

Yes, fabsf and all other -f/-l functions from math.h is part of the std namespace via cmath in C++11. It was added in about 2002, when C++0x was rebased on top of the C99 standard library, which made [c.math]/4 include those new functions.

[c.math]/4

The contents of these headers are the same as the Standard C library headers <math.h> and <stdlib.h> respectively, with the following changes:

(historical note: the intent to add all the -f/-l variants was already apparent in C++03, see LWG289)

However, the table listing the contents of cmath was overlooked until 2016, when p0175r1 fixed all such tables to bring them in line with the standard.

p0175r1

Impact on the standard

The change is purely editorial.