The largest floating point value with the same sign possible for a function's return.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <math.h>

Varies by CPU

If the result of a function is too large to be represented as a value by the return type, the function should return HUGE_VAL. It is the largest floating point value with the same sign as the expected return type.