WIEDERHOLD@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU (Gio Wiederhold) (01/15/88)
14-Jan-88 10:00:54-PST,612;000000000000 Date: Thu, 14 Jan 88 10:00:54 PST From: Gio Wiederhold <WIEDERHOLD@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Subject: Re: Power operator in C (Pascal) To: "*PS:<WIEDERHOLD>PASCAL.DEL.1"@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU In-Reply-To: <29551E8D@PSUVM> Message-ID: <12366577829.30.WIEDERHOLD@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> ** in FORTRAN That is not what Fortran does. Integer exponenations are, in good implementations, always certainly for constants, expanded in-line, using plynomial multiplications based on the bit pattern. If a compiler can only give you one-to-one what the hardware provides we get an assembler! gio ------- -------