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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Try this fix.  __ieee754_pow() only uses two functions that change
> when HAVE_FPU is defined, __ieee754_sqrt() and scalbn().
> __iee754_sqrt() is to simple to be be broken, but scalbn() left
> garbage on the FPU stack.

...

> It's surprising that this problem hasn't been noticed before.

Hm... According to my mail archives, I started a discussion about
povray crashing when linked with msun near the end of May 1994.
At that time, no answer was found.  I'll try this patch now.  :)

-john