* Re: [gfortran] Exponentiation by integral exponents
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@ 2004-04-29 12:20 ` Tobias Schlüter
2004-04-29 15:50 ` Are BUILT_IN_POWII and BUILT_IN_POWCI necessary? (RE: Exponentiation by integral exponents) Feng Wang
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From: Tobias Schlüter @ 2004-04-29 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Feng Wang; +Cc: fortran, gcc
[ forwarding to gcc@gcc.gnu.org so more knowledgeable people can comment
on the point I make in the last paragraph ]
Feng Wang wrote:
> Hi, Tobi, Paul, etc
> I missed the discussion because of my poor modem. But I have implemented this
> and the patch is under test. IMHO, we have to implement the algorithm described
> by Knuth in the FE. BUILT_IN_POW only deals with Real type. How about complex
> type? There are also many problems to consider when an integer is raised to an
> negative integer. The result is just 0, -1, or 1. So it is not correct to
> convert integer to real.
This is a good point that I hadn't thought about.
> I think we should also implement the runtime library
> function powi. When a value is raised to an varible integer, we just call the
> library function. The value may be of integer type, real type or complex type.
Yeah, I thought so as well. I was already looking for an implementation.
> I have done these and in a few days I will give the patch. I didn't port Andy's
> implementation. Andy's vertion only deal with exponent under 100 and don't
> consider (integer ** negative integer). The main algorithm in my implementation
> is from builtins.c and can deal with an arbitrary integer exponent. The
> algorithm in powi library function is from libf77.
If your patch is finished I agree that we should go with your patch, as
mine is far from finished. I chose to port Andy's implementation as this
was my first step in GCC trees, and I didn't want to do something from
scratch :-)
I don't necessarily agree that this should be handled in the FE, though.
There might be other languages that have an "integral exponent" idiom,
so a language independent solution might be preferable.
- Tobi
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* Are BUILT_IN_POWII and BUILT_IN_POWCI necessary? (RE: Exponentiation by integral exponents)
2004-04-29 12:20 ` [gfortran] Exponentiation by integral exponents Tobias Schlüter
@ 2004-04-29 15:50 ` Feng Wang
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From: Feng Wang @ 2004-04-29 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tobias_Schlüter; +Cc: fortran, gcc
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--- Tobias_Schlüter <tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de> µÄÕýÎÄ£º> [
forwarding to gcc@gcc.gnu.org so more knowledgeable people can comment
> on the point I make in the last paragraph ]
>
> Feng Wang wrote:
> > Hi, Tobi, Paul, etc
> > I missed the discussion because of my poor modem. But I have implemented
> this
> > and the patch is under test. IMHO, we have to implement the algorithm
> described
> > by Knuth in the FE. BUILT_IN_POW only deals with Real type. How about
> complex
> > type? There are also many problems to consider when an integer is raised to
> an
> > negative integer. The result is just 0, -1, or 1. So it is not correct to
> > convert integer to real.
>
> This is a good point that I hadn't thought about.
>
> > I think we should also implement the runtime library
> > function powi. When a value is raised to an varible integer, we just call
> the
> > library function. The value may be of integer type, real type or complex
> type.
>
> Yeah, I thought so as well. I was already looking for an implementation.
>
> > I have done these and in a few days I will give the patch. I didn't port
> Andy's
> > implementation. Andy's vertion only deal with exponent under 100 and don't
> > consider (integer ** negative integer). The main algorithm in my
> implementation
> > is from builtins.c and can deal with an arbitrary integer exponent. The
> > algorithm in powi library function is from libf77.
>
> If your patch is finished I agree that we should go with your patch, as
> mine is far from finished. I chose to port Andy's implementation as this
> was my first step in GCC trees, and I didn't want to do something from
> scratch :-)
>
> I don't necessarily agree that this should be handled in the FE, though.
> There might be other languages that have an "integral exponent" idiom,
> so a language independent solution might be preferable.
To this point it is reasonable. But thus we will have to build and expand
BUILT_IN_POWII (int ** int) and BUILT_IN_POWCI (complex ** int) in the BE. Is
this necessary? Maybe the GCC community can give us some suggestion.
Feng Wang
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