std::pow implementation

[Richard Guenther]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Robert Dewar wrote:

> > Also portability is not only about different targets, but also about
> > different compilers! Declaring something inline for one compiler doesnt
> > necessary have the same desired semantics for inline for another one.
>
> good point ...
>

Which equals to the point that gcc should be able to produce equally good
code for any inline semantics the code was written for.

Richard.