Corrected CHANGES notes that were mixed up for TAB, VT, CR &
NL. The code in 2.12.7.0 is correct. The CHANGE notes should
have read:
The following is a partial list of escape sequences recognized
in strings and in printf formats:
\a audible bell byte 0x07 in ASCII encoding
\b backspace byte 0x08 in ASCII encoding
\f form feed byte 0x0c in ASCII encoding
\n newline byte 0x0a in ASCII encoding
\r return byte 0x0d in ASCII encoding
\t tab byte 0x09 in ASCII encoding
\v vertical tab byte 0x0b in ASCII encoding
Sorry!
The following are the changes from calc version 2.12.7.0 to date:
Added a patch to replaces the manual search for include files
in $(INCDIR) in the have_*.h targets with compiler invocations.
Thanks goes to Helmut Grohne (helmut at subdivi dot de) who
implemented the patch and posted it to the Debian bug tracker
and Martin Buck (m at rtin-buck dor de) for forwarding it to us.
The check_include make rule was fixed to not assume /usr/include.
The qprintnum() function now takes outdigits as a 3rd argument.
Most of the time, this 3rd argument is just conf->outdigits.
But when it comes to the experimental '%g', this value can
change. This avoids having to modify conf->outdigits.
Fixed a problem where gcc complains about E_FUNC not being defined
for Linux systems as reported by Martin Buck (m at rtin-buck dor de).
Updated the help files help/config, help/display, help/epsilon,
help/fprint, help/printf, and help/strprintf to give more
examples of how display digits and epsilon precision interact
with displaying values.
Added more information about %g in the help file help/printf.
The '\a' is now recognized in a printf format string as the
single byte audible bell character (byte 0x07 in ASCII encoding).
The following is a partial list of escape sequences recognized
in strings and in printf formats:
\a audible bell byte 0x07 in ASCII encoding
\b backspace byte 0x08 in ASCII encoding
\f form feed byte 0x0c in ASCII encoding
\n newline byte 0x0b in ASCII encoding
\r return byte 0x0a in ASCII encoding
\t tab byte 0x0d in ASCII encoding
\v vertical tab byte 0x09 in ASCII encoding
Added a patch to replaces the manual search for include files
in $(INCDIR) in the have_*.h targets with compiler invocations.
Thanks goes to Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi dot de> who
implemented the patch and posted it to the Debian bug tracker
and Martin Buck (m at rtin-buck dor de) for forwarding it to us.
The check_include make rule was fixed to not assume /usr/include.
The qprintnum() function now takes outdigits as a 3rd argument.
Most of the time, this 3rd argument is just conf->outdigits.
But when it comes to the experimental '%g', this value can
change. This avoids having to modify conf->outdigits.
The following are the changes in this release:
For historical purposes, in lucas.cal, gen_v1(1, n) always returns 4.
Fixed some compiler warnings, thanks to a report by Mike
<michael dot d dot ince at gmail dot com>.
Added work around for a gcc warning bug, thanks to a report by Mike
<michael dot d dot ince at gmail dot com>.
Fixed errors in various help files such as:
mat randbit seed srandom types
Removed the MAXSTRING symbol because it was no longer used by calc.
Increased HIST_SIZE (depth of the history stack) from 10k to 32k.
Increased TTYSIZE (reallocation size for terminal buffers) from 100 to 8191.
Increased MAXDEPTH (maximum depth of input stack) from 10 to 255.
Increased interactive input buffer size from 1024 to 256k. This has the
effect of increasing the maximum length of an input line from a tty.
This helps with an interactive bug that was reported by Ruslan Kabatsayev
(b7 dot 10110111 at gmail dot com).
The calc man page indicates that -d also disables the printing of the
leading tilde.
Added information to "help command" about how to silence messages
while reading calc resource files.
Fixed an error message buffer overflow thanks to a report by
Frank Peters <nlp at northernlightsphoto dot biz>.
Replaced all use of the C funcion sprintf() with snprintf().
Replaced all use of the C funcion vsprintf() with vsnprintf().
Replaced all DONT_HAVE_VSPRINTF with DONT_HAVE_VSNPRINTF.
Replaced all Makefile var ${HAVE_VSPRINTF} with ${HAVE_VSNPRINTF}.
Fixed errors in various help files such as:
mat randbit seed srandom types
Removed the MAXSTRING symbol because it was no longer used by calc.
Increased HIST_SIZE (depth of the history stack) from 10k to 32k.
Increased TTYSIZE (reallocation size for terminal buffers) from 100 to 8191.
Increased MAXDEPTH (maximum depth of input stack) from 10 to 255.
Increased interactive input buffer size from 1024 to 256k. This has the
effect of increasing the maximum length of an input line from a tty.
This helps with an interactive bug that was reported by Ruslan Kabatsayev
(b7 dot 10110111 at gmail dot com).
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Fixed a man page warning about ./myfile where the leading dot
was mistook for an nroff macro. Thanks goes to David Haller
<dnh at opensuse dot org> for providing the patch.
Improved gen_v1(h,n) in lucas.cal for cases where h is not a
multiple of 3. Optimized the search for v(1) when h is a
multiple of 3.
Fixed a Makefile problem, reported by Doug Hays <doughays6 at gmail
dot com>, where if a macOS user set BINDIR, LIBDIR, CALC_SHAREDIR
or INCDIR in the top section, their values will be overwritten by
the Darwin specific section.
Added the makefile variable ${COMMON_ADD} that will add flags
to all compile and link commands. The ${COMMON_ADD} flags are
appended to both ${COMMON_CFLAGS} and ${COMMON_LDFLAGS}. This
facility is available to nearly all platforms except those with
very old make comamnds that do not understand the += operator.
Example on masOS (Darwin), one may invoke clang's -fsanitize
facility by:
make clobber all COMMON_ADD='-fsanitize=undefined -fsanitize=address'
Another example. To force C warnings to be treated as errors:
make COMMON_ADD='-Werror'
Some folks might think: “you still use RCS”?!? And we will say,
hey, at least we switched from SCCS to RCS back in … I think it was
around 1994 ... at least we are keeping up! :-) :-) :-)
Logs say that SCCS version 18 became RCS version 19 on 1994 March 18.
RCS served us well. But now it is time to move on. And so we are
switching to git.
Calc releases produce a lot of file changes. In the 125 releases
of calc since 1996, when I started managing calc releases, there
have been 15473 file mods!
calc GitHub philosophy
All of the previous commits in the master branch are the consists
of compressed source tarballs. The 125 git tags represent calc
releases from version 2.10.2t30 (Sat Jul 06 1996 04:17:00 GMT-0700)
to version 2.12.5.6 (Sun May 21 2017 15:03:29 GMT-0700).
At this point master branch will switch from those released tarballs
to the development tree. While we will make an effort to verify
that commits won't break calc: sometimes we will end up breaking
calc. You should consider the top of the master branch as potentially
unstable.
When we are ready to release calc, we will tag the commit with the
calc version and submit a release on GitHub. The GitHub release
will contain the usual RPMs, SRPMs, a release README and a released
source tarball.
