[Issue 308] Documentation of float.max_exp, min_exp is misleading

[Don Clugston]

d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
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> ------- Comment #1 from smjg at iname.com  2006-09-09 18:50 -------
> How do you know it's the spec that's wrong and not the complier?  Moreover, why
> are they min_exp and max_exp, not minExp and maxExp as per naming conventions?

Because they are the same values that C compilers return. Eg Visual C++ 
returns the same values. I don't know why C ended up with such a 
ridiculous definition, but those are the values used on all C/C++ 
compilers that I know of.