lib/45372: A bug in pow(3)

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

>Number:         45372
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       A bug in pow(3)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 17 06:55:00 +0000 2011
>Originator:     Jukka Ruohonen
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.55/amd64
>Organization:
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>Environment:
>Description:

For pow(x, y), if x = -1 and y = +- Inf, 1.0 should be returned. But NetBSD
returns incorrectly NaN.

>How-To-Repeat:

A simple test case reveals this.

>Fix:

NA.