JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8134795: Port fdlibm pow to Java

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Joe,

This looks fine. +1.

Brian

On Sep 15, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at Oracle.Com> wrote:

> At long last, I've started the port of the C version of FDLIBM (freely distributable math library) from C to Java, beginning with the pow method:
> 
>    JDK-8134795: Port fdlibm pow to Java
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8134795.6/
> 
> The FDLIBM algorithms provide direct backing to the more interesting methods in java.lang.StrictMath and indirect backing to the corresponding java.lang.Math methods on some platforms (depending on whether or not platform-optimized alternative versions are being used).