[git commit] bc: new applet, throws warning

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On 6 December 2018 22:38:45 CET, Gavin Howard <gavin.d.howard at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 2:30 PM Michael Conrad <mconrad at intellitree.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>Fair enough, mostly, because I know the point of busybox, actually. I

Don't get me wrong, but given your dc was   10 (!) times the size of our existing  implementation I would be surprised if the bc written in the same style was as small as it should be.

thanks,