Re: expt weirdness in floatfns.c

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> I basically agree with your change, but your comment looks confusing:
> 
>       && INTEGERP (arg2)   /* don't promote, if both are ints, and */
>       && 0 <= XINT (arg2)) /* we are not computing the -ARG2 root */
> 
> root?  Are you confusing with `(expt 2 0.5)'?  Should the second line
> not simply be:  /* ARG2 is nonnegative */ ?

you're right (i was confused; "root" is the wrong word).
thanks for pointing this out.

thi