[git commit] bc: new applet, throws warning

Michael Conrad mconrad at intellitree.com
Thu Dec 6 21:30:00 UTC 2018


On 12/6/2018 11:48 AM, Gavin Howard wrote:
> you are
> going to have to make the bc not give good error messages and/or not
> check for errors as thoroughly (a massive chunk of the parser, which
> is the largest portion, is dedicated to error checking), reduce the
> quality of the code, reduce the performance of the math (though this
> would not remove much), or all of them combined.

Just FYI, these are typical things people do for busybox applets ;-)

I'm not a bc user, so I don't care either way; having the applet seems 
better than not having it, and you seem to have thoroughly completed a 
difficult project.  ...but I do think maybe you missed the spirit of 
Busybox code.

-Mike

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