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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:12:22 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: HUGE_VAL == INFINITY
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> From: <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:05:10 +0100 (CET)
> 
> 1. What's that (the changing of HUGE_VAL) good for?

It's not good, we should have only one definition.  Prevously, only
libm/math.h had it defined, but now we added it to stdlib.h as well.

> 3. Is it so that HUGE_VAL == INFINITY (which libm/math.h seems to
> imply)?

AFAICS, the two definitions are identical (the __infinity thing is
misleading), but we should have only one, IMHO.

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