Hi Robert, > Well if you tell me there are people about there implementing cpow > with log and exp, that's enough for me to decide that Ada should > continue to stay away (the Ada RM has accuracy requirements that > would preclude a broken implementation of this kind) :-)
the reference manual allows for a "relaxed mode", which doesn't have those accuracy requirements. I guess -ffast-math and the use of builtins would be appropriate in the relaxed mode. Do you plan to implement such a mode one day? Just curious. All the best, Duncan.