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Re: std::pow implementation

From: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, aoliva at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kgardas at objectsecurity dot com, rguenth at tat dot physik dot uni-tuebingen dot de
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:33:59 +0200
Subject: Re: std::pow implementation
References: <20030730141030.F0FABF2DFF@nile.gnat.com> <m3y8yg2it1.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

only some (C++) implementors have decided that they know better than
the programmer and they should not listen to the programmer assuming
that their uses of inline is nonsensical.

Hi everyone... My 2 cents, or even 0 cents if someone already mentioned what I'm going to say...

Gaby, your concept of "know better than the programmer..." reminds me something I read years ago about the keyword "register". Is there something we can learn from that? At the time I was convinced that the programmer is not as good as Chaitin's register allocators ;) ...

Paolo.

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