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| -rw-r--r-- | Include/pyport.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Include/pyport.h b/Include/pyport.h index 15a480a..5f8ccf7 100644 --- a/Include/pyport.h +++ b/Include/pyport.h @@ -235,9 +235,13 @@ extern "C" { * on some Cray systems HUGE_VAL is incorrectly (according to the C std) * defined to be the largest positive finite rather than infinity. We need * the std-conforming infinity meaning (provided the platform has one!). + * + * Then, according to a bug report on SourceForge, defining Py_HUGE_VAL as + * INFINITY caused internal compiler errors under BeOS using some version + * of gcc. Explicitly casting INFINITY to double made that problem go away. */ #ifdef INFINITY -#define Py_HUGE_VAL INFINITY +#define Py_HUGE_VAL ((double)INFINITY) #else #define Py_HUGE_VAL HUGE_VAL #endif |