Dean Rasheed writes:
> The issue is in this line from power_var_int():
> sig_digits += (int) log(Abs(exp)) + 8;
> because "exp" is a signed int, so Abs(exp) leaves INT_MIN unchanged.
> The most straightforward fix is to use fabs() instead, so that "exp"
> is cast to double *before* the absolut
(Amusingly I only found this after discovering that Windows Calculator
has a similar bug which causes it to crash if you try to raise a
number to the power INT_MIN.)
On my machine, numeric_power() loses all precision if the exponent is
INT_MIN, though the actual failure mode might well be
platform
