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Re: std::pow implementation
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Cc: aoliva at redhat dot com, bernds at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jbuck at synopsys dot com, rguenth at tat dot physik dot uni-tuebingen dot de, s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl
- Date: 04 Aug 2003 20:11:44 +0200
- Subject: Re: std::pow implementation
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <20030804175925.182FCF2D86@nile.gnat.com>
dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
| > I do insist on the fact that it is not just an "as-if" rule.
|
| You can insist all you like, but every rule in a standard of this kind
| is an as-if rule.
It is an "as-if" rule only because that is the way it is described in
standardese. In the C++ community, we do care about history and
documented behaviour. You won't change that, just because you want
C++ inline to have a less language specific meaning.
-- Gaby