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Ambiguous description of `CL_FLT_MIN`, etc.
The description of CL_FLT_MIN (and CL_DBL_MIN / CL_HALF_MIN) is currently:
Minimum value of type cl_float
"Minimum value" in this case could refer to the smallest floating-point value (meaning, a positive value closest to zero) or the most negative floating-point value (meaning, the value closest to negative infinity). We should clarify this.
In the headers, this is a positive value closest to zero:
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-Headers/blob/6137cfbbc7938cd43069d45c622022572fb87113/CL/cl_platform.h#L192
#define CL_FLT_MIN 1.175494350822287507969e-38f
The description in cppreference (for the analogous FLT_MIN) is:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/climits.html
minimum normalized positive value of float, double and long double respectively