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Re: std::pow implementation
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gdr at integrable-solutions dot net, jbuck at synopsys dot com
- Cc: aoliva at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,rguenth at tat dot physik dot uni-tuebingen dot de, s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:08:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: std::pow implementation
> Gaby, the scenario Alex describes is COMMON. Constant propagation
> frequently causes lots of code to be thrown away, and any automatic
> inlining decision that doesn't take this effect into account is broken.
Note thjat this is even more the case in Ada, where the normal way of doing
conditional compilation is by the use of constant booleans (there is no
macro preprocessing defined in Ada).