std::pow implementation

[Paolo Carlini]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

>only some (C++) implementors have decided that they know better than
>the programmer and they should not listen to the programmer assuming
>that their uses of inline is nonsensical.
>
Hi everyone... My 2 cents, or even 0 cents if someone already mentioned 
what I'm going to say...

Gaby, your concept of "know better than the programmer..." reminds me 
something I read years ago about the keyword "register". Is there 
something we can learn from that? At the time I was convinced that the 
programmer is not as good as Chaitin's register allocators ;) ...

Paolo.