by bertrand.marlier:

Before filing a bug, please check whether it has been fixed since
the latest release: run "hg pull -u" and retry what you did to
reproduce the problem.  Thanks.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.compile the following source code with 8g:

// start of file
package main
import "math";
var value float64 = math.MaxFloat64;
// end of file

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

expected: successful compilation, ie: constant MaxFloat64 can be assigned
to a Float64 variable.

instead:
maxfloat64.go:4: constant 1.79769e+308 overflows float64

What is your $GOOS?  $GOARCH?
linux/386

Which revision are you sync'ed to?  (hg log -l 1)

changeset:   4037:cd0140653802
tag:         tip
user:        David Titarenco <david.titarenco@gmail.com>
date:        Fri Nov 13 18:06:47 2009 -0800
summary:     Created new Conn.Flush() public method so the fd pipeline can
be drained arbitrarily by the user.

Please provide any additional information below.

The following does not work either:

var value float64 = float64(math.MaxFloat64);

But the following works:

var value float64 = 1.7976931348623157e+308;

or:

var value float64 = math.MinFloat64;