std::pow implementation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

| > But this implies an "inline" directive
| > which would more or less _force_ the compiler to always inline the code.
| 
| Yes, but there is nothing in the standard or in common sense that requires
| you to treat this implicit inline the same way you would treat other inlines,

there is nothing like "implicit" inline and other inlines in C++.

-- Gaby