Re: PATCH: HUGE_VAL should be Infinity

["John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>]

>   In message < 200010170458.AAA23638@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca >you write:
>   > Having thought a little more about this, I believe the change is wrong as i
>   > will make the define in math.h inconsistent with the system's existing math
>   > library.  Thus, the patch should not be applied.
> Excellent point.
> 
> I guess the "fix" is to upgrade to hpux11 where this situation is handled
> more gracefully.  FWIW, I do most of my hpux work on hpux11 now.

After thinking about this overnight, I beieve the hugeval.c test should be
changed because the second half is not a compiler test.  It checks whether
the definition of HUGE_VAL is +Infinity.  The linux math.h header states
that HUGE_VAL is +Infinity on all IEEE754 machines.  However, this appears
not to be the case.  In any case, systems predating the standard or without
ieee floating point will fail the hugeval test.  Since I don't think
compiler tests should fail when there is nothing wrong with the compiler,
I will try to come up with a test fix.

Dave
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