[vermilingua]

I don’t think there is much systems code that needs an exponent of -1, maybe none that needs exponents at all (aside from 2^n, which has opcodes, not C functions)

[terminalbraid]

The bug is for an exponent of 2. The base is -1.

[Dylan16807]

They mean power of -1.

[CodesInChaos]

Most critical OS functionality will use integers, not floats. And I'd expect most programmers to write squaring a float as `x * x`.