# HG changeset patch
# User jwe
# Date 783786464 0
# Node ID 3896bd1fdda4c96e5b3b37e0d093d1380c511195
# Parent  b6b78f85743ab9b851c6667a53b38e76b9b414b7
[project @ 1994-11-02 14:25:29 by jwe]

diff --git a/src/sysdep.cc b/src/sysdep.cc
--- a/src/sysdep.cc
+++ b/src/sysdep.cc
@@ -495,26 +495,6 @@
   return retval;
 }
 
-DEFUN ("realmax", Frealmax, Srealmax, 0, 1,
-  "realmax (): return largest representable floating point number")
-{
-  Octave_object retval;
-
-  retval = DBL_MAX;
-
-  return retval;
-}
-
-DEFUN ("realmin", Frealmin, Srealmin, 0, 1,
-  "realmin (): return smallest representable floating point number")
-{
-  Octave_object retval;
-
-  retval = DBL_MIN;
-
-  return retval;
-}
-
 #if !defined (HAVE_GETHOSTNAME) && defined (HAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H)
 extern "C"
 {
diff --git a/src/variables.cc b/src/variables.cc
--- a/src/variables.cc
+++ b/src/variables.cc
@@ -1486,6 +1486,12 @@
 	  "true", 0, 0, 1, propagate_empty_matrices,
     "operations on empty matrices return an empty matrix, not an error");
 
+  DEFVAR ("realmax", SBV_realmax, DBL_MAX, 1, 1, 1, 0,
+    "realmax (): return largest representable floating point number");
+
+  DEFVAR ("realmin", SBV_realmin, DBL_MIN, 1, 1, 1, 0,
+    "realmin (): return smallest representable floating point number");
+
   DEFVAR ("resize_on_range_error", SBV_resize_on_range_error, "true", 0,
 	  0, 1, resize_on_range_error,
     "enlarge matrices on assignment");