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Add a note regarding the introduction of the new bc and dc implementations

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that are built by default on -CURRENT after 2020-06-26.
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Stefan Eßer 2020-07-05 14:43:14 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
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@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
20200627:
A new implementation of bc and dc has been imorted in r362681. This
implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc
and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions,
is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs
(a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further
languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the
world with the previous versions of bc and dc.
20200625:
r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules.
As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources.