Ted Powell <@tgivan.com>:
> When I ran openssl-0.9.5a's "make test", the tmp.bntest file that was
> written contained (out of 1800+ tests) seven expressions which Solaris 7's
> 'bc' evaluated to give non-zero results.
[...]
> When I feed the problematic tmp.bntest to GNU bc (version 1.05a, on Red Hat
> Linux 6.2) all the expressions evaluate to zero, as they should.
> My concern is this: Do the BN library and GNU 'bc' agree with each other
> because they are both right (and the Solaris 'bc' has a bug), or do the BN
> library and GNU 'bc' agree with each other because they each have the same
> bug (and the Solaris 'bc' is giving correct answers)?
GNU bc does not use the BN library, so it would be strange if they had
the same bugs; so this looks like problem of Solaris bc. Why don't
you post the offending lines so that the computations can be verified
with yet other software?
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