The last time I checked, dc is only a front-end for bc. It seems odd to me that dc can work correctly if bc is broken...
-- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J.P. King > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Solaris bc > > > > (Reference, I am looking at the 'failed' test given by make test, and > the 'bctest' script) > > Hi, > > I do not claim to understand the cryptography, and probably most of the > maths involved, but I am puzzled as to why bc being 'broken' is an issue? > > Not least of all since you have dc which appears to work: > > draco$ dc << EOF > > > AD88C418F31B3FC712D0425001D522B3AE9134FF3A98C13C1FCC1682211195406C > 1A6C66C6A\ > > > CEEC1A0EC16950233F77F1C2F2363D56DD71A36C57E0B2511FC4BA8F22D261FE2E > 9356D99AF57\ > > > 10F3817C0E05BF79C423C3F66FDF321BE8D3F18F625D91B670931C1EF25F28E489 > BDA1C5422D1\ > > > C3F6F7A1AD21585746ECC4F10A14A778AF56F08898E965E9909E965E0CB6F85B51 > 4150C644759\ > > > 3BE731877B16EA07B552088FF2EA728AC5E0FF3A23EB939304519AB8B60F2C33D6 > BA0945B66F0\ > > 4FC3CADF855448B24A9D7640BCF473Esa > > > DCE91E7D120B983EA9A104B5A96D634DD644C37657B1C7860B45E6838999B3DCE5 > A555583C6\ > > > 9209E41F413422954175A06E67FFEF6746DD652F0F48AEFECC3D8CAC13523BDAAD > 3F5AF4212BD\ > > > 8B3CD64126E1A82E190228020C05B91C8B141F1110086FC2A4C6ED631EBA129D04 > BB9A19FC53D\ > > 3ED0E2017D60A68775B75481449sb > > la lb / lb * la lb % + la - p > > EOF > 0 > draco$ uname -srvmpi > SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 > > > Personally I would use dc in preference to bc for all scripted use anyway. > > I imagine that I am missing something here, of course, but it did > seem worth mentioning in case I wasn't. > > This only came up because someone was concerned about compiling something > (OpenSSH) which relied on compiling your library first. > > Cheers, > > Julian > -- > Julian King > Computer Officer, University of Cambridge, Unix Support > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
