HUGE is missing in math.h

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Tim Prince
>Sent: 28 June 2005 15:02

> Dave Korn wrote:
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>> ----Original Message----
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>>> From: Tim Prince
>>> Sent: 28 June 2005 13:36
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>>> 64-bit, 80-bit and 128-bit long long are supported in common
>>> IEEE-compliant compilers, 
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>>  I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here, "long long" is an
>> integer type.  I'll assume that you meant to say "long double", and I
>> imagine this would be the same as the reason why Jeff said that
>> "HUGE_VALL is the only one that is difficult." 
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> Right, thanks for correcting me.


  Heh, that wasn't the main point; what I'd be most interested to hear from
you is whether you think casting INF to (long double) would be a valid way
to generate HUGE_VALL, or not, if you have formed an opinion on the matter.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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