CTFE ^^ (pow)

Rubn where at is.this
Sun Mar 18 13:57:05 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 18 March 2018 at 04:37:32 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> Manu wrote:
>
>> What is so hard about implementing a pow intrinsic that CTFE 
>> can use?
>> It's ridiculous that we can't CTFE any non-linear function...
>> It's one of those blocker bugs that's been there almost 10 
>> years.
>
> nobody bothered. it is all done by intercepting calls in CTFE 
> engine (using FQN mangled names), nothing very special. i once 
> did it in my fork (but then mangling scheme was changed, and i 
> never fixed the patch, lol).

There was a PR a while ago IIRC, it's probably one of those 
sitting at the back of the queue from 4 years ago or something.


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