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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:35:00 -0000
From: Richard Guenther <rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
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Subject: Re: std::pow implementation
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On 29 Jul 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> Richard Guenther <rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
> | It has been shown that the current gcc unroller is not able to
> | unroll the while loop in std::__cmath_power() and such even inlining
> | does not help to create good code. Also inlining the loop if it is
> | not unrolled and its contents not sufficiently cprop'ed is harmful.
>
> If you find that after inlining, the status of "constant expression"
> is not recognized then I'd encourage you to fill a PR.

The problem is the loop optimizer not being able to compute the number of
iterations here. PR optimization/11710 - though unfortunately not a
regression. Can anyone check if this is fixed on rtlopt (one more reason
to merge it)?

Richard.