This version adds support for command line editing and history using
the editline or readline libraries in addition to the line editing
features available in previous versions.
This version adds options and functions that allow to print numbers
in the open interval (-1 .. 1) with or without a leading 0 digit.
Additionally, an option has been added to prevent line wrap and
allows to print arbitrarily long results on a single line.
This is a new major release with a number of changes and extensions:
- Limited the number of temporary numbers and made the space for them
static so that allocating more space for them cannot fail.
- Allowed integers with non-zero scale to be used with power, places,
and shift operators.
- Added greatest common divisor and least common multiple to lib2.bc.
- Made bc and dc UTF-8 capable.
- Added the ability for users to have bc and dc quit on SIGINT.
- Added the ability for users to disable prompt and TTY mode by
environment variables.
- Added the ability for users to redefine keywords.
- Added dc's modular exponentiation and divmod to bc.
- Added the ability to assign strings to variables and array elements
and pass them to functions in bc.
- Added dc's asciify command and stream printing to bc.
- Added bitwise and, or, xor, left shift, right shift, reverse,
left rotate, right rotate, and mod functions to lib2.bc.
- Added the functions s2u(x) and s2un(x,n), to lib2.bc.
This version makes dc exit after processing all commands passed via -e or -f
instead of waiting for more input on STDIN (add "-f -" to the command line
to emulate the behavior of versionm 3.1.3 and earlier, if desired).
The version and copyright message are no longer printed for interactive
sessions as was the case with the prior implementation in the FreeBSD base
system.
Obtained from: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
This release fixes a regression from traditional bc behavior in FreeBSD
with regard to "-e quit" being passed on the command line and add Spanish
message catalogs.
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
