Import new 2-clause BSD licenced implementation of the bc and dc commands
These implementations of the bc and dc programs offer a number of advantages
compared to the current implementations in the FreeBSD base system:
- They do not depend on external large number functions (i.e. no dependency
on OpenSSL or any other large number library)
- They implements all features found in GNU bc/dc (with the exception of
the forking of sub-processes, which the author of this version considers
as a security issue).
- They are significantly faster than the current code in base (more than
2 orders of magnitude in some of my tests, e.g. for 12345^100000).
- They should be fully compatible with all features and the behavior of the
current implementations in FreeBSD (not formally verified).
- They support POSIX message catalogs and come with localized messages in
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portugueze,
and Russian.
- They offer very detailed man-pages that provide far more information than
the current ones.
Approved by: imp
Obtained from: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19982
2020-06-27 15:03:19 +00:00
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# Notice
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2023-01-28 20:02:27 +00:00
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Copyright 2018-2023 Gavin D. Howard and contributors.
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Import new 2-clause BSD licenced implementation of the bc and dc commands
These implementations of the bc and dc programs offer a number of advantages
compared to the current implementations in the FreeBSD base system:
- They do not depend on external large number functions (i.e. no dependency
on OpenSSL or any other large number library)
- They implements all features found in GNU bc/dc (with the exception of
the forking of sub-processes, which the author of this version considers
as a security issue).
- They are significantly faster than the current code in base (more than
2 orders of magnitude in some of my tests, e.g. for 12345^100000).
- They should be fully compatible with all features and the behavior of the
current implementations in FreeBSD (not formally verified).
- They support POSIX message catalogs and come with localized messages in
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portugueze,
and Russian.
- They offer very detailed man-pages that provide far more information than
the current ones.
Approved by: imp
Obtained from: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19982
2020-06-27 15:03:19 +00:00
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## Contributors
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The contributors to `bc` (besides Gavin) are listed below in alphabetical order.
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* Laurent Bercot (skarnet)
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* Stefan Eßer (stesser)
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* Michael Forney (michaelforney)
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* John Regan (jprjr)
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* rofl0r
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* Zach van Rijn (me@zv.io)
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