Change twice used large const table to static

This table is used twice in core::num::dec2flt::algorithm::power_of_ten.
According to the semantics of const, a separate huge definition of the
table is inlined at both places.

    fn power_of_ten(e: i16) -> Fp {
        assert!(e >= table::MIN_E);
        let i = e - table::MIN_E;
        let sig = table::POWERS.0[i as usize];
        let exp = table::POWERS.1[i as usize];
        Fp { f: sig, e: exp }
    }

Theoretically this gets cleaned up by optimization passes, but in
practice I am experiencing a miscompile from LTO on this code. Making
the table a static, which would only be defined a single time and not
require attention from LTO, eliminates the miscompile and seems
semantically more appropriate anyway. A separate bug report on the LTO
bug is forthcoming.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/etc/dec2flt_table.py b/src/etc/dec2flt_table.py
index 9bbcaf7c4cc..ad2292e8571 100755
--- a/src/etc/dec2flt_table.py
+++ b/src/etc/dec2flt_table.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def print_proper_powers():
     print()
     print("#[rustfmt::skip]")
     typ = "([u64; {0}], [i16; {0}])".format(len(powers))
-    print("pub const POWERS: ", typ, " = (", sep='')
+    print("pub static POWERS: ", typ, " = (", sep='')
     print("    [")
     for z in powers:
         print("        0x{:x},".format(z.sig))