[BusyBox] Shells

Aaron Lehmann aaronl at vitelus.com
Wed Jul 4 12:40:29 UTC 2001


On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:18:39AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> So if busybox ash had math support would it be a posix compatable shell, or would there be other issues as well ?

There shouldn't be, unless somebody removed more than just the math
support.

I've been toying with math parsing. I have optimized arith.y's output
to compile to an extremely stripped .o of 3820 bytes on i386, but the
code is _extremely_ ugly. I think I'll go for rewriting it from
scratch.





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