MSVC compilation fixes

[David Bateman]

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:10 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> wrote:
>   
>> diff -r 7683fa6c06a2 src/OPERATORS/op-int.h
>> --- a/src/OPERATORS/op-int.h    Mon Feb 11 10:11:56 2008 +0100
>> +++ b/src/OPERATORS/op-int.h    Fri Jun 20 12:40:27 2008 +0200
>> @@ -227,13 +227,13 @@
>>   octave_value \
>>   xpow (const octave_ ## T1& a, float b) \
>>   { \
>> -    return pow (a, b); \
>> +    return pow (a, static_cast<double> (b)); \
>>   } \
>>
>> Shouldn't we use powf here instead?  Does MSVC provide powf, or do we
>> need a replacement in lo-specfun.cc (or lo-mappers.cc; I'm not sure
>> now why these files aren't combined)?
>>     
>
> Maybe David should comment on it. MSVC has powf
> (but it simply defined to (float)pow(a,b) on non-64bits architectures)).
>
> Michael.
>
>   
I'd say use powf.. If I didn't it was just an oversight..

D.

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