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Re: HUGE is missing in math.h

From: Tim Prince <tprince at myrealbox dot com>
To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
Cc: tprince at computer dot org, "'Ralf Corsepius'" <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>, "'Newlib List'" <newlib at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:23:42 -0700
Subject: Re: HUGE is missing in math.h
References: <SERRANOcjbaRY7XJdRg0000024c@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
Reply-to: tprince at computer dot org

Dave Korn wrote:

----Original Message----

From: Tim Prince Sent: 28 June 2005 15:02
Dave Korn wrote:
----Original Message----
From: Tim Prince
Sent: 28 June 2005 13:36
64-bit, 80-bit and 128-bit long long are supported in common IEEE-compliant compilers,

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."
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

Looks reasonable to me.

References:
- RE: HUGE is missing in math.h
  - From: Dave Korn

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