[Cfp-interest 1274] Re: C2x_proposal_-_TS_18661-4a-2-20190213.pdf

[Jim Thomas]

> On Mar 5, 2019, at 10:59 AM, David Hough CFP <pcfp at oakapple.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> We had an action item to review this.   I didn't see anything wrong,
> although in the prior art, all the *pi and {log,exp}*{2,10}* functions
> were implemented in Sun Solaris

I’ll add this to the prior art.

> about 30 years ago.    I don't think the C
> compiler optimizer knew anything special about them, but the Fortran compiler
> recognized some opportunities to simplify expressions involving pow of
> fixed bases and expressions involving exp... - 1 and log 1+...
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