Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:29:02 -0900 From: "CK" <nibbana@gmx.us> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: dc(1) bugs Message-ID: <0MGSDw-1aNbRn0GKO-00DEp9@mail.gmx.com>
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I expect it to be a well-tested tool, since it is the oldest tool, part of the UNIX base system, and the only tool that will peform arbitrary precision calculations on a command-line and in a shell script and other programs that make use of those capabilities. Supposedly, OpenBSD rewrote it to make use of their "big num" library (or something similar). Anyway, it is an important and valuable tool for the shell, and what WordPress has to do with anything related to dc(1) I certainly do not know. Most people don't use FreeBSD either, does that imply removal from the system? Ruby and Vim are not arbitary precision programming languages. I don't care for any of those languages: Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. Awk/Mawk is perfectly satisfactory for anyone that knows C, and far faster. No, it doesn't have libraries like the others, but that is what C is for. Anyway, the question was to verify that these are indeed bugs before submitting a bug report. > I do not expect "dc" to be a well-tested tool. Probably > 100k*more people use software like WordPress etc. > > My way to do calculations is in Ruby, mostly by pipe or > self-written commands in Vim. Surely there are similar ways > to do such things using Perl or Python. If you really insist > on "dc" you shouldn't be afraid of debugging that. > > Let me propose to remove "dc" from the base system because > fixing the bugs is too much work in respect to what > installable tools provide nowadays. > > Bertram > > > -- > Bertram Scharpf > Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany > http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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