Re: [PATCH] Change pow(, 0.5) -> sqrt() in osscan[2].cc

[Kris Katterjohn <kjak () ispwest com>]

Fyodor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:17:16PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> > The attached patch just uses sqrt() instead of pow(,0.5) on everything
> > instead of just Linux in osscan.cc and osscan2.cc. Apparently (judging
> > by the comment in osscan.cc), sqrt() is used on Linux because pow() is
> > broken in some libc versions. sqrt(X) is the same as pow(X,0.5), so we
> > can just use sqrt() and avoid the #ifdef.
>
> Are you sure that sqrt() is portable to all the systems supported by
> Nmap, including Windows?
>
> Cheers,
> -F
>
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I was going to assume it was because it's in ANSI C, but I went ahead
and looked. I saw this and thought it meant it's portable to Windows:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f1xa99e6.aspx


Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn

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