NAME

flmin, flmax, dflmin, dflmax, inmax − return extreme values

SYNOPSIS

function flmin() function flmax() double precision function dflmin() double precision function dflmax() function inmax()

DESCRIPTION

Functions flmin and flmax return the minimum and maximum positive floating point values respectively.  Functions dflmin and dflmax return the minimum and maximum positive double precision floating point values.  Function inmax returns the maximum positive integer value. 

These functions can be used by programs that must scale algorithms to the numerical range of the processor. 

The approximate values of these functions for the Sun Workstation are:

flmin1.175494e−38

flmax3.402823e+38

dflmin
2.2250738590e−308

dflmax
1.7976931349e+308

inmax
2147483647

FILES

/usr/lib/libF77.a

Sun System Release 1.0  —  17 November 1983