Re: New pow-function

On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Hi, > > I've rewritten the pow(base,exp) function. It is attached. > > In stead of a mere call to the c-lib function pow, this one actually does > something more smart. This is to protect those people not knowing that there > is huge difference between raising to an integer power and raising to a > fractional power. It will give sensible errors rather than bogus results. > > It will also return integer when possible, i.e. pow(5,5) will return the > INTEGER 3125. > > Read the new function for more info, it's richly commented, and for any > questions: just mail me. > > IMPORTANT: I didn't test it yet, I'm not even sure there are no compile > errors. > (My linux machine doesn't have libtool 1.4 :-(( ) Please use proper Z_* macros, that is Z_LVAL_PP(exp) instead of Z_LVAL(*exp). -Andrei "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." -Henry Miller, The Books in My Life