optimization/2146: Invalid optimization for the exponentialfunction

[Stephen L Moshier]

The following reply was made to PR optimization/2146; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stephen L Moshier <moshier@mediaone.net>
To: Frederic.Goualard@cwi.nl
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: optimization/2146: Invalid optimization for the exponential
 function
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:27:04 -0500 (EST)

 > GCC optimizes the computation of the exponential
 > of a constant by replacing the call to the function
 > provided by the mathematical library by some assembler
 > instructions to compute it directly.
 
 GCC does not do that.  The C library header file math.h is
 doing that.  Complain to the glibc department.  Possibly
 the bug has been fixed in newer versions of the libm math library.
 It is not a compiler bug.