powExpressions work at ctfe

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9 May 2016 at 23:02, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 12:49:16 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
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>> On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 12:33:33 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
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>>> On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 12:24:18 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
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>>>> [...]
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>>> I see.
>>> I did not test a floating point value at the left-hand site.
>>> working on a fix.
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>>
>> okay the workaround would be just to avoid pointer casts.
>> And use bitwise operations to convert the values.
>> Another option is not to jit std.math routines at ctfe.
>>
>> I would prefer the second option, any opinions ?
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>
> Yet another option is using soft-float for ctfe, that would also prevent
> issues with cross-compiled binarys that have ctfe in them.

This is almost certainly the correct solution... at least a soft-float
implementation of pow, since it's an operator ;)