1 /* Support routines for the intrinsic power (**) operator.
2 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Contributed by Paul Brook
5 This file is part of the GNU Fortran 95 runtime library (libgfortran).
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32 #include "libgfortran.h"
34 /* Use Binary Method to calculate the powi. This is not an optimal but
35 a simple and reasonable arithmetic. See section 4.6.3, "Evaluation of
36 Powers" of Donald E. Knuth, "Seminumerical Algorithms", Vol. 2, "The Art
37 of Computer Programming", 3rd Edition, 1998. */
39 #if defined (HAVE_GFC_REAL_16) && defined (HAVE_GFC_INTEGER_8)
41 GFC_REAL_16
pow_r16_i8 (GFC_REAL_16 a
, GFC_INTEGER_8 b
);
42 export_proto(pow_r16_i8
);
45 pow_r16_i8 (GFC_REAL_16 a
, GFC_INTEGER_8 b
)