[Mono-bugs] [Bug 43018][Nor] Changed - Mono is unable to evaluate Math.Pow (-2, (+/-)1E300))

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Changed by dietmar@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43018

--- shadow/43018	Fri May 30 10:31:39 2003
+++ shadow/43018.tmp.11785	Fri May 30 10:59:56 2003
@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@
 Math.Pow (1, Infinity) return Infinity on MS .NET (I would expect 1)
 
 pow (-1, -1.E+300) return NAN on RH8 (I would expect 1)
 
 
 
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+------- Additional Comments From dietmar@ximian.com  2003-05-30 10:59 -------
+The question is if Math.Pow() should be IEEE754 compatible. And is
+Unix  pow() expected to be IEEE754 compatible? If so, we can directly
+call unix pow(), and post bug reports to the gcc and MS people ;-)
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