http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46722
Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |ASSIGNED Last reconfirmed| |2010.11.30 14:48:36 AssignedTo|unassigned at gcc dot |rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org |gnu.org | Ever Confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #2 from Richard Guenther <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-11-30 14:48:36 UTC --- History and the optimal power series expansion (thus, we want x*x*x*x*x*x to be folded to pow(x,6) and optimally expanded). I once had patches to do that on the tree level and introduce a POW_EXPR that also accepted integer exponents - long time ago. Mine.