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From: WIEDERHOLD@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU (Gio Wiederhold)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: **
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Date: 14 Jan 88 20:22:06 GMT
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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
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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
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