RFR(S): 8063086: Math.pow yields different results upon repeated calls

[Roland Westrelin]

> Why is this considered a bug? Doing so seems to be opening a can of worms. As an example any expression which lowers to contain FMA like instructions will yield different results once compiled.  It seems more reasonable to declare it proper and expected behavior. 

That comment:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8063086?focusedCommentId=13594090&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13594090

should answer the question.

Roland.