Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 21:35:07 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: Gavin Howard <gavin.d.howard@gmail.com> Subject: New bc and dc implementation merged to 12-STABLE (off by default) Message-ID: <e69b3d1c-70be-54fc-47b2-c727a1a0008e@freebsd.org>
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The new bc and dc implementation that has become the default version in FreeBSD-CURRENT has been merged to 12-STABLE and will be included in the upcoming release 12.2. It has a number of advantages (standards compliance, speed, NLS support) over the one in previous FreeBSD releases, but in accordance with POLA it will require the option WITH_GH_BC=yes to be passed to buildworld and installworld in FreeBSD-12. With WITH_TESTS=yes a large number of tests is built and available as part of the Kyua based test framework - test results from platforms other than i386 and amd64 are welcome. The same version of bc and dc is also available as a port or package, but built with less aggressive compiler optimizations and without any test cases being installed (but they can be run with "make test" in the port directory /usr/ports/math/gh-bc).
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