the FLT128_XXX definitons don't belong into the POSIX module

Yeah ... I had a vague notion that those definitions might be outside of POSIX's "terms of reference".

That being so, what is the best way to assign the FLT128_MAX value to a scalar on a -Dusequadmath perl (and without calling on a non-CORE module) ?
I really can't think of any better way than doing $nv_max = 1.18973149535723176508575932662800702e4932;
But that string of numbers is not quite as easy to remember as "POSIX::FLT128_MAX".
A little easier to remember is $nv_max = 0x1.ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffp+16383 except that it provides the wrong result on perl-5.22.0 (the first stable release of perl to support -Dusequadmath): 
$ perl -le '$x = 0x1.ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffp+16383; print $x;'
Inf

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Just lately I seem to often want to assign NV_MAX to a perl scalar (for various exercises regarding some testing of code).
For nvtype='double' I can use POSIX::DBL_MAX and for nvtype='long double' I can use POSIX::LDBL_MAX. It would therefore be nice to be able to use POSIX::FLT128_MAX when nvtype='__float128'.
But if that can't be then it's really not such a big deal to use other means, though it is a bit of a nuisance having to continually look up the value.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: POSIX and -Dusequadmath by syphilis
in thread POSIX and -Dusequadmath by syphilis

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