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+## Copyright (C) 2004-2015 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{r} =} bitmax (@var{precision})
+##
+## @code{bitmax} is deprecated and will be removed in Octave version 4.4.
+## Use @code{flintmax (precision) - 1} for the equivalent functionality.
+##
+## Return the largest integer @var{r} that can be represented within a
+## floating point value.
+##
+## The default class is @qcode{"double"}, but @qcode{"single"} is a valid
+## option.  On IEEE 754 compatible systems, @code{bitmax} is
+## @w{@math{2^{53} - 1}} for @qcode{"double"} and @w{@math{2^{24} - 1}} for
+## @qcode{"single"}.
+##
+## @seealso{flintmax, intmax, realmax, realmin}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Deprecated in version 4.2
+
+function r = bitmax (precision)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "bitmax is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use flintmax instead");
+  endif
+
+  if (nargin == 0)
+    precision = "double";
+  endif
+  r = flintmax (precision) - 1;
+
+endfunction