[m-dev.] making cfloat__init/1 implicit

[Fergus Henderson]

Andrew Bromage, you wrote:
> 
> Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 
> > We should fix mode analysis to use a more sane algorithm for
> > picking which mode to call.  Then this change can be committed.
> > For now I will leave it uncommitted.
> 
> Could I suggest that a reasonable first-cut is to search modes in the
> order that they are declared independent of their determinisms?  We
> may have to examine some library predicates to see if their orderings
> are "reasonable".

The problem with this suggestion is that it would break existing code.

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