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9 <holder>Khronos Group
</holder>
12 <refentrytitle>abs
</refentrytitle>
13 <manvolnum>3G
</manvolnum>
16 <refname>abs
</refname>
17 <refpurpose>return the absolute value of the parameter
</refpurpose>
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>Declaration
</title>
22 <funcdef>genType
<function>abs
</function></funcdef>
23 <paramdef>genType
<parameter>x
</parameter></paramdef>
28 <funcdef>genIType
<function>abs
</function></funcdef>
29 <paramdef>genIType
<parameter>x
</parameter></paramdef>
34 <funcdef>genDType
<function>abs
</function></funcdef>
35 <paramdef>genDType
<parameter>x
</parameter></paramdef>
39 <refsect1 id=
"parameters"><title>Parameters
</title>
42 <term><parameter>x
</parameter></term>
45 Specify the value of which to return the absolute.
51 <refsect1 id=
"description"><title>Description
</title>
53 <function>abs
</function> returns the absolute value of
<parameter>x
</parameter>.
56 <refsect1 id=
"versions"><title>Version Support
</title>
58 <informaltable frame=
"topbot">
63 <entry>abs (genType)
</entry>#newin11#
66 <entry>abs (genIType)
</entry>#newin13#
69 <entry>abs (genDType)
</entry>#newin41#
75 <refsect1 id=
"seealso"><title>See Also
</title>
77 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sign
</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
80 <refsect1 id=
"Copyright"><title>Copyright
</title>
82 Copyright
<trademark class=
"copyright"></trademark> 2011 Khronos Group.
83 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
84 the Open Publication License, v
1.0,
8 June
1999.
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"http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/
</ulink>.