2011 Khronos Group
ldexp 3G
ldexp assemble a floating point number from a value and exponent

## Declaration

genType `ldexp` genType x genIType exp genDType `ldexp` genDType x genIType exp

## Parameters

x

  Specifies the value to be used as a source of significand.

out exp

  Specifies the value to be used as a source of exponent.

## Description

`ldexp` builds a floating point number from x and the corresponding integral exponent of two in exp, returning:

significand ⋅ 2 exponent

If this product is too large to be represented in the floating point type, the result is undefined.

## Version Support

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## See Also

frexp

## Copyright

Copyright 2011 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. http://opencontent.org/openpub/.