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.
The upstream sources contain a large number of tests, which are not
imported with this commit. They could be integrated into our test
framework at a latter time.
Installation of this version is controlled by the option "MK_GH_BC=yes".
This option will be set to yes by default in 13-CURRENT, but will be off
by default in 12-STABLE.
Approved by: imp
Obtained from: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
MFC after: 4 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19982
This file is already off the vendor branch and there hasn't been a bc
release in more than 4 years so I can't see any harm in fixing this.
Submitted by: Arne Woerner <arne_woerner at yahoo dot com>
PR: gnu/86627
functions in multi-line files to fail, depending on the state of the
stack. The fix is sanctioned by the vendor and will appear in bc-1.07.
PR: bin/34601
Reported by: mi
Obtained from: Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
not being echoed to the output. So as a _hack_ to get the world building
again, redirect the readline rl_outstream to stderr when not interactive.
The proper way to handle non-interactive mode is to read from stdin
and don't worry about edit mode, but this is GNU so it's not worth the
time thinking about. I'm already pissed off that I even had to look
at this "nice code".
