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

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:28:58AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Since we already define _BIT__ for char and similar macros are needed
> for floating point types, I'll propose, for consistency to provide it
> for the rest of the integer types.

I don't see the value for other integer types.

If we're going to define anything for the fp types,
it might as well be bits with which we could derive
all the values in float.h, so that we can get rid 
of the many header variants there as well.


r~