I am not missing the point, as I do not believe in authorities and someone else's evaluations of skill level of yet another person. To rewrite a simple exponentiation in C would not cause "lots of work", and pinpointing the culprit, the exponentiation does not require any gdb debugging and disassembling. In fact, just knowing that exponentiation has caused that suggests faulty hardware and not further investigation required.

You should probably invite these people themselves to the discussion instead of speaking on their behalf. Not productive.