From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7132 invoked by alias); 30 Jul 2003 14:31:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 7123 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2003 14:31:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tus001.unitus.it) (193.205.144.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2003 14:31:43 -0000 Received: from unitus.it (SNOM [193.205.146.160]) by tus001.unitus.it with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 37MXR9Q4; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:27:59 +0200 Message-ID: <3F27D757.70802@unitus.it> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:51:00 -0000 From: Paolo Carlini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Dos Reis CC: Robert Dewar , Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com, aoliva@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, kgardas@objectsecurity.com, rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: Re: std::pow implementation References: <20030730141030.F0FABF2DFF@nile.gnat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-07/txt/msg02186.txt.bz2 Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >only some (C++) implementors have decided that they know better than >the programmer and they should not listen to the programmer assuming >that their uses of inline is nonsensical. > Hi everyone... My 2 cents, or even 0 cents if someone already mentioned what I'm going to say... Gaby, your concept of "know better than the programmer..." reminds me something I read years ago about the keyword "register". Is there something we can learn from that? At the time I was convinced that the programmer is not as good as Chaitin's register allocators ;) ... Paolo.