Re: bc

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Juergen Heinzl) writes:

|> In article <address@hidden>, Chris Young wrote:
|> [-]
|> >bc seems to segmentation fault when fed any expression longer than 127
|> >characters.  I'm using bc 1.05 under Linux 2.2.16.  You probably already
|> >know about this problem.
|> >
|> >bc 1.05
|> >Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|> >This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
|> >For details type `warranty'.
|> 
>143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214+143094309214
|> >Segmentation fault (core dumped)
|> [-]
|> Seems to be fixed in bc-1.06, but please check the result ::

This version does not seem to be released yet, at least I cannot find it
on ftp.gnu.org nor alpha.gnu.org.  The only reference I could find is
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/incoming/phil/bc-1.06.tar.gz, but that looks a
bit weird.

Andreas.

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