HUGE is missing in math.h

[Tim Prince]

Dave Korn wrote:

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>>Dave Korn wrote:
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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.
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>  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.
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Looks reasonable to me.