use scalbn or *2.0 instead of ldexp, fix fmal

use scalbn or *2.0 instead of ldexp, fix fmal

Some code assumed ldexp(x, 1) is faster than 2.0*x,
but ldexp is a wrapper around scalbn which uses
multiplications inside, so this optimization is
wrong.

This commit also fixes fmal which accidentally
used ldexp instead of ldexpl loosing precision.

There are various additional changes from the
work-in-progress const cleanups.