bits/inf.h

   1 /* Default `INFINITY' constant.
   2    Copyright (C) 2004-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
   4
   5    The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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   8    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
   9
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  14
  15    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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  17    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
  18
  19 #ifndef _MATH_H
  20 # error "Never use <bits/inf.h> directly; include <math.h> instead."
  21 #endif
  22
  23 /* If we don't have real infinity, then we're supposed to produce a float
  24    value that overflows at translation time, which is required to produce
  25    a diagnostic.  GCC's __builtin_inff produces a quite nice diagnostic
  26    that tells the user that the target doesn't support infinities.  */
  27
  28 #if __GNUC_PREREQ(3,3)
  29 # define INFINITY       (__builtin_inff())
  30 #else
  31 # define INFINITY       (1e9999f)
  32 #endif