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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: MAXDOUBLE and values.h? 
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<<On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:39:21 +0000, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said:

> You should use <sys/limits.h>, and MAXDOUBLE will come out of the 
> machine-specific headers in <machine/>

<style lang="en" variant="bde">
No.  The header file you mentioned is called <limits.h>, but it is
for integer limits only.  Floating-point limits are located in
<float.h>, where `MAXDOUBLE' is spelled `DBL_MAX'.
</style>

-GAWollman

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