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Product of Inf terms leading to NaNs #745

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@Uroc327

ForwardDiff (v1.0.1 as well as v0.10.38) fails to compute the gradient when the inputs are too large for the following function.

julia> using ForwardDiff

julia> foo(a) = a[1] * exp(-a[2])
foo (generic function with 1 method)

julia> ForwardDiff.gradient(foo, [1., -1e3])
2-element Vector{Float64}:
 NaN
 NaN

The correct gradient should be [Inf, -Inf]. This works for values a2 small enough such that exp(a2) is finite.

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