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o Re: contradiction about the INFINITY macroJames Kuyper

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Re: contradiction about the INFINITY macro

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Subject: Re: contradiction about the INFINITY macro
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 by: James Kuyper - Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:37 UTC

On 10/9/21 4:05 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
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> there are still potential issues. For instance, the standard does not
> guarantee that HUGE_VAL has the largest possible double value, and

In fact, a fully conforming implementation could define it to match
DBL_MIN. I think that's a defect.

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