Stefan Eßer 1f958cfad7 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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This is the checklist for cutting a release.

Update the README.
Update the manuals.
Test history manually.
Test with POSIX test suite.
Run the randmath.py script an excessive amount and add failing tests to test suite.
- debug
- release
- minrelease
Fuzz with AFL.
- reldebug
Fix AFL crashes.
Find ASan crashes on AFL test cases.
Fix ASan crashes.
Build with xstatic.
Run and pass the release.sh script on my own machine.
Run and pass the release.sh script, without generated tests and sanitizers, on FreeBSD.
Run and pass the release.sh script, without generated tests, sanitizers, and 64-bit, on Thalheim's ARM server.
Run and pass the release script, with no generated tests, no clang, no sanitizers, and no valgrind, on NetBSD.
Run and pass the release script, with no generated tests, no clang, no sanitizers, and no valgrind, on OpenBSD.
Run Coverity Scan and eliminate warnings, if possible (both only).
- debug
Run scan-build make.
Repeat steps 3-14 again and repeat until nothing is found.
Update the benchmarks.
Change the version (remove "-dev") and commit.
Run make clean_tests.
Run the release script.
Upload the custom tarball to GitHub.
Add sha's to release notes.
Edit release notes for the changelog.
Increment to the next version (with "-dev").
Notify the following:
- FreeBSD
- Adelie Linux
- Ataraxia Linux
- Sabotage
- xstatic
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
Submit new packages for the following:
- Alpine Linux
- Void Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Linux from Scratch
- Arch Linux

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