Re: fix for expt bug

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ramakrishnan and others,
>
> I just realized that there is a better way to fix these bugs.  We don't
> need a new top-level case in expt after all.  Instead, we generalize the
> scm_integer_expt case to support inexact integer exponents.
>
> Within that case, if the exponent is an inexact integer, then we make it
> exact and make the base inexact, and then call scm_integer_expt.

Mark,

Why do we need to convert the base to inexact? is there any problem if
they are just as it is and we convert only the exponent to exact when
they are exact?

-- 
  Ramakrishnan