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Re: V3 PATCH: numeric_limits<> support, fix PR/3865

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Paul Koning wrote:


From the name I would expect __builtin_huge_val() to return a large

finite value, not infinite...
HUGE_VAL is a historic name for this. Early implementation really meant a huge value since they had no Inf. For modern architectures the meaning was taken over. Since gcc has to support either we have to do one group something wrong. There is no good reason to break with existing practice so we might as well stick with HUGE_VAL:

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