e_pow.c bug

[Steve Moshier]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Bryce McKinlay wrote:

> Interesting. It looks like our StrictMath.java, which is a port of the C
> code, also suffers from this problem. As does Sun's JRE as of 1.5-beta,
> from looking at the following test case. Any idea if this issue has been
> reported to Sun?

To my knowledge, Sun Microsystems has never lifted a finger to maintain
or support fdlibm.  They specifically refused to address other fdlibm
bugs that I showed them years ago, when the package was first released.
But since you brought it up, I will write to one of the people who were
involved with the development.