Subject: Re: bc and dc revisited.
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/10/2003 17:23:56
In article <29656B19-1393-11D8-8B71-000A957650EC@wasabisystems.com>,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
>
>On Nov 10, 2003, at 7:25 AM, <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:
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>> Actually, to verify its functionality I used the tests from GNU bc.
>> I needed to do so because I was fiddling with its internals, and
>> it's generally a good idea to verify that it works afterwards :-)
>
>Cool.  Perhaps we could just keep the GNU bc testsuite for the new one 
>(like I said, I think it's fine to use a GPL'd testsuite in this way).

We should also look at the OpenBSD bc/dc work. They have been slowly
adding all the GNU extensions. It might be easier to start from there.

christos