Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 14:43:14 +0000 (UTC) From: =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_E=c3=9fer?= <se@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r362945 - head Message-ID: <202007051443.065EhEpU026677@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: se Date: Sun Jul 5 14:43:14 2020 New Revision: 362945 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362945 Log: Add a note regarding the introduction of the new bc and dc implementations that are built by default on -CURRENT after 2020-06-26. Modified: head/UPDATING Modified: head/UPDATING ============================================================================== --- head/UPDATING Sun Jul 5 14:38:22 2020 (r362944) +++ head/UPDATING Sun Jul 5 14:43:14 2020 (r362945) @@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW: disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20200627: + A new implementation of bc and dc has been imorted in r362681. This + implementation corrects non-conformant behavior of the previous bc + and adds GNU bc compatible options. It offers a number of extensions, + is much faster on large values, and has support for message catalogs + (a number of languages are already supported, contributions of further + languages welcome). The option WITHOUT_GH_BC can be used to build the + world with the previous versions of bc and dc. + 20200625: r362639 changed the internal API used between the NFS kernel modules. As such, they all need to be rebuilt from sources.
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