cmath and pow

Gabriel Dos_Reis Gabriel.Dos_Reis@sophia.inria.fr
Thu Sep 30 15:24:00 GMT 1999


Chris Prince <prince@wcug.wwu.edu> writes:

| On 30 Sep 1999, Gabriel Dos_Reis wrote:
| 
| > Chris Prince <prince@wcug.wwu.edu> writes:
| > 
| > | I was just recently playing with a few functions and I noticed that the
| > | pow method crashes my machine.  Runs me right to a bus error. 
| > 
| > A misalignment?
| > 
| > Hum... What do you get with the 'pow' from <math.h> (not <cmath>)
| > 
| > If the result is different then I'll be interested in the prototype of 
| > pow() in <math.h>
| 
|   the result is different, one crashes my machine the other does not (the
| one that doesn't crash my machine is math.h).
| 
| Here are the two code fragments:
| #include <math.h>
| int main() {
|      double powertest = pow(2., 0);
| }

Then I'd like to see pow() prototype (in <math.h>)

-- Gaby


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