std::pow implementation

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

| > If we assume for now that intermodule optimization is not done (and that's
| > the current situation),
| 
| For the record, intermodule inlining is considered a critically important
| optimziation in the Ada world.

Certainly. I don't what the Ada compilation is, but C++ (and C) tend
to have a very rude compilation model.
Before we go that level of machinery, let's get it right for
translation units. 

-- Gaby