From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 21:13:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3148737B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corbulon.video-collage.com (corbulon.video-collage.com [64.35.99.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791A343E65 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:13:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@corbulon.video-collage.com) Received: from corbulon.video-collage.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbulon.video-collage.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7J4DFe5051124 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:13:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@corbulon.video-collage.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by corbulon.video-collage.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g7J4DEcw051123 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:13:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) From: Mikhail Teterin Message-Id: <200208190413.g7J4DEcw051123@corbulon.video-collage.com> Subject: pow(3) on FreeBSD To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:13:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL92b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.15 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! In accordance with its man-page entry, pow(3) will return 0 if its second argument is not an integer. Why is that? What's the reasoning and what is a workaround -- I'm trying to port an application from Solaris, which uses pow(3) quite heavily... Needless to say, Solaris' pow works properly for non-integer arguments... Thanks! -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message