return power(x, _ex_1);
}
+// This is a strange workaround for a compiliation problem with the try statement
+// below. With -O1 the exception is not caucht properly as of GCC-2.95.2, at
+// least on i386. Version 2.95.4 seems to have fixed this silly problem, though.
+// Funnily, with a simple extern declaration here it mysteriously works again.
+#if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__==2)
+extern "C" int putchar(int);
+#endif
+
static ex log_series(const ex &arg,
const relational &rel,
int order,