diff --git a/Eigen/src/SVD/JacobiSVD.h b/Eigen/src/SVD/JacobiSVD.h
index 78dfd1d59..ea2bd62eb 100644
--- a/Eigen/src/SVD/JacobiSVD.h
+++ b/Eigen/src/SVD/JacobiSVD.h
@@ -665,10 +665,8 @@ JacobiSVD<MatrixType, QRPreconditioner>::compute(const MatrixType& matrix, unsig
   // only worsening the precision of U and V as we accumulate more rotations
   const RealScalar precision = RealScalar(2) * NumTraits<Scalar>::epsilon();
 
-  // limit for very small denormal numbers to be considered zero in order to avoid infinite loops (see bug 286)
-  // FIXME What about considerering any denormal numbers as zero, using:
-  // const RealScalar considerAsZero = (std::numeric_limits<RealScalar>::min)();
-  const RealScalar considerAsZero = RealScalar(2) * std::numeric_limits<RealScalar>::denorm_min();
+  // limit for denormal numbers to be considered zero in order to avoid infinite loops (see bug 286)
+  const RealScalar considerAsZero = (std::numeric_limits<RealScalar>::min)();
 
   // Scaling factor to reduce over/under-flows
   RealScalar scale = matrix.cwiseAbs().maxCoeff();