[gfortran] commited, patch for PR 24685

[Richard E Maine]

On Feb 15, 2006, at 1:31 AM, Tobias Schlüter wrote:

> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> Now, is Fortran huge() supposed to be infinity, or largest finite 
>> number
>> of the chosen kind?
>
> The latter.

Neither.  :-)

Though the latter is closer and is sometimes right. It is supposed to 
be the largest *MODEL* number. It is possible for there to be finite 
representable numbers that are larger than huge(). I don't think that 
happens with IEEE, though I didn't sit down and check. It can happen 
with some floatting point formats, though. One should not assume that 
it is inherently impossible for a finite number to be greater than 
huge.

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