std::pow implementation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> writes:

| Can you stop bashing and be reasonable for once?

I'm reasonable.  Being reasonable does not imply not recognizing that
the original meaning of "inline" has been transmuted.

| If you were so great you would have declated __cmath_power inline in
| the first place. 

Did I claim I am "great" or "so great"?  
There are reasons I didn't declare __cmath_power inline in the first place. 
That is why I asked for data and ways to reproduce them.

[...]

| Now cut away all the redundant labels and other cruft, and you end up
| with:

In short, you have demonstrated that if "inline" is given its obvious
meaning, the compiler can do a better job.  That is what I claimed in
the first place.

-- Gaby