> > 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... > > Wrong way around. bc is a front end for dc. bc -c shows you what > is sent to dc. I think that the problem may be to do with lines being > truncated when sent from bc to dc, but I haven't checked this in > detail. > > Certainly I would assume that dc was more reliable on 'traditional' > unix systems than bc. Whether this is the case with the GNU equivalents > I am not sure. > > Incidentally, I am not suggesting that bc isn't broken, merely that > since openssl doesn't care about bc except as a tool for checking > results that there might be an alternative tool
And on that note, I believe the IRIX compile touched off this thread. At least as of 6.5.13m, bc is GNU BC 1.0.4a, which is also self-contained according to its man page. No DC dependancy here. Anyway, is this version known to be broken? ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
