[PATCH] PR11706, optimize std::pow(T, int)

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Wed Jan 12 16:54:00 GMT 2005


Richard Guenther <rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

| The __builtin_pow variants handle constant integer exponents specially
| - they only do not dispatch to special integer versions for non-constant
| exponents.

That is a flow.  If I recall correctly, the idea is to have the
compiler handle integer powers too, be they constant or not.

-- Gaby



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