Re: build failure (alpha-current): floating point exception 8

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> surely that was wrong in the first place anyway?  HUGE_VAL is a valid
> number and the invalid input is signalled when
>
>    (errno == ERANGE && (r == HUGE_VAL || r == -HUGE_VAL || r == 0))
>
> but you could just test for ERANGE, after all thats what the function was
> doing in the first place..?

$ grep HUGE_VAL include/math.h
/* 7.12#3 HUGE_VAL, HUGELF, HUGE_VALL */
#define HUGE_VAL        __infinity.__val


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