Added config("tilde_space", boolean) to help/config, along with
a few few minor text improvements. Updated cal/regress to test
config("tilde_space").
Added config("fraction_space", boolean). The "fraction_space" controls
whether or not a space (' ') is printed before and after fractions.
By default, config("fraction_space") is false.
For example, with the default, config("fraction_space", 0):
; base(1/3),
; 1/7
1/7
With config("fraction_space", 1):
; base(1/3),
; 1/7
1 / 7
NOTE: Use of config("fraction_space", 1) can break printing and scanning
of fractional values via "%r".
NOTE: Use of config("fraction_space", 1) can break printing and scanning
of complex values via "%c".
Added config("fraction_space", boolean) to help/config, along with
a few few minor text improvements. Updated cal/regress to test
config("tilde_space").
Added config("tilde_space", boolean). The "tilde_space" controls
whether or not a space (' ') is printed after leading tilde ('~').
By default, config("tilde_space") is true, which is a change
from past behavior. For example, now:
; 1/3
~ 0.33333333333333333333
With config("tilde_space", 0):
; 1/3
~0.33333333333333333333
To disable "tilde_space", use config("tilde_space", 0) on the
command line and/or use config("tilde_space", 0),; in your ~/.calcrc.
Thanks goes to <GitHub use ljramalho> for this suggestion.
Added config("tilde_space", boolean) to help/config, along with
a few few minor text improvements. Updated cal/regress to test
config("tilde_space") and to account for the new default.
Changed /*NOTREACHED*/ to not_reached(); and use "attribute.h".
Added .PHONY rule, just after all rule, to Makefiles.
Fixed an improper indentation issue.
We apologize for the calc v2.14.0.12 source tarball that was missing
critical files. While the executable was well tested, our release
process was deficient.
We are improved our release process and added tests during the release
procedure to help verify that we are not regressing in to the "v2.14.0.12
source tarball" issue, among other things.
Depending on how things do, you might is several releases come out over
a short period of time. The core of calc isn't changing, so the calc
executable will be the same as we focus on the Makefiles, our release
procedure, and related documentation / help files.
Removed constructed help file that incorrectly added as a src file.
=-=
The following are the changes in this release:
Minor tweak to seed() builtin. Updated help/srand and help/srandom.
Moved Makefile.ship into Makefile.
Removed custom/Makefile.head and custom/Makefile.tail.
The custom/Makefile is now part of source and includes Makefile.
In particular, custom/Makefile makes use of the 'middle' of
the new top level Makefile where calc's top level Makefile
variables are defined.
Makefile.simple and custom/Makefile.simple are now part of the source
and are constructed from Makefile and custom/Makefile respectively.
The Makefile.simple and custom/Makefile.simple avoid using GNU
conditionals. They may be used with older/classic make commands.
Makefile.local will include comments about how to better use
it. Between releases, Makefile.local at the top of the master branch
will contain how we typically build calc and test calc (FYI: we
normally enable things such as -Werror -Wextra -pedantic). When we
push out a release, Makefile.local will be stripped of non-comment
lines. Thus, releases of calc, and, released "calc*.src.rpm"
files and the source tarballs, will have a Makefile.local with
only comments.
The "README.*" files and "HOWTO.INSTALL" file have been updated.
By default, compiler warnings have been turned up. The Makefile
variable ${CCWARN} now defaults to:
CCWARN= -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
The previous level of compiler warnings can be easily restored by
adding to Makefile.local:
CCWARN:= -Wall
The readline, history and ncurses libraries are now default.
The Makefile variables ${USE_READLINE}, ${READLINE_LIB}, and
${READLINE_EXTRAS} now default to:
USE_READLINE= -DUSE_READLINE
READLINE_LIB= -lreadline
READLINE_EXTRAS= -lhistory -lncurses
The previous mode where readline, history and ncurses libraries
were not compiled in by default can be easily restored by
adding to Makefile.local:
USE_READLINE:=
READLINE_LIB:=
READLINE_EXTRAS:=
We have renamed "stable" as "production".
We have renamed "unstable" as "tested".
On the web site:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/src/calc/
these files has been renamed:
2.x.y.z_IS_LATEST_STABLE ==> 2.x.y.z_IS_LATEST_PRODUCTION
2.x.y.z_IS_LATEST_UNSTABLE ==> 2.x.y.z_IS_LATEST_TESTED
The terms 'stable' and 'unstable' were both misleading and
inaccurate. For details see the new documention file:
README.RELEASE
See also the help command:
; help release
Fixed bug impacting how have_ustat.h was formed.
Updated help/archive to reflect GitHub use.
We apologize for the calc v2.14.0.12 source tarball that was missing
critical files. While the executable was well tested, our release
process was deficient.
We are improved our release process and added tests during the release
procedure to help verify that we are not regressing in to the "v2.14.0.12
source tarball" issue, among other things.
Depending on how things do, you might is several releases come out over
a short period of time. The core of calc isn't changing, so the calc
executable will be the same as we focus on the Makefiles, our release
procedure, and related documentation / help files.
We made several changes to the Makefiles. We also added a new
README.RELEASE document (see "help release") that is a work in
progress. Along the way we discovered a few things that needed to be
updated in documentation.
See the CHANGES file for details.
Fixed documentation that referred to the old additive 55
generator. We have been using the subtractive 100 in place
of the additive 55 generator for a while now.
Drop support for CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE.
Improved seed() generation. Improved some comments in seed.c.
Added have_environ.c to build have_environ.h in order to
determine if:
extern char **environ; /* user environment */
is an valid external symbol.
Added builtin functions to convert between degrees, minutes and
seconds and degrees under the config("mod") round rules:
dms2d(d, m, s [,rnd]) - convert deg, min, and secs to deg
dm2d(d, m [,rnd]) - convert deg, min to deg
See help/dms2d and help/dm2d.
Example:
; print dms2d(12, 20, 44.16);
12.3456
; print dm2d(3601, -25.5594);
0.57401
Added builtin functions to convert between gradians, minutes and
seconds and gradians under the config("mod") round rules:
gms2g(g, m, s [,rnd]) - convert grad, min, and secs to grad
gm2g(g, m [,rnd]) - convert grad and min to grad
See help/g2gms and help/g2gm.
Example:
; print gms2g(12, 20, 44.16);
12.3456
; print gm2g(4001, -25.5594);
0.57401
Added builtin functions to convert between hours, minutes and
seconds and hours under the config("mod") round rules:
hms2h(h, m, s [,rnd]) - convert hours, min, and secs to hours
hm2h(h, m [,rnd]) - convert hours, min to hours
See help/hms2h and help/hm2h.
Example:
; print hms2h(12, 20, 44.16);
12.3456
; print hm2h(241, -25.5594);
0.57401
Added several conversion functions:
Added builtin functions to convert between degrees and
degrees, minutes and seconds under the config("mod")
round rules:
d2dms(degs, d, m, s [,rnd]) - given degs, compute d, m, s
d2dm(degs, d, m [,rnd]) - given degs, compute d, m
See help/d2dms and help/d2dm.
Example:
; print d2dms(360.321,deg=,min=,sec=), deg, min, sec;
0.321 0 19 15.6
; print d2dm(360.321,deg=,min=), deg, min;
0.321 0 19.26
Added builtin functions to convert between gradians and
gradians, minutes and seconds under the config("mod")
round rules:
g2gms(grads, g, m, s [,rnd]) - given grads, compute g, m, s
g2gm(grads, g, m [,rnd]) - given grads, compute g, m
See help/g2gms and help/g2gm.
Example:
; print g2gms(400.321,grad=,min=,sec=), grad, min, sec;
0.321 0 19 15.6
; print g2gm(400.321,grad=,min=), grad, min;
0.321 0 19.26
Added builtin functions to convert between hours and
hours, minutes and seconds under the config("mod")
round rules:
h2hms(hours, h, m, s [,rnd]) - given hours, compute h, m, s
h2hm(hours, h, m [,rnd]) - given hours, compute h, m
See help/h2hms and help/h2hm.
Example:
; print h2hms(24.321,hour=,min=,sec=), hour, min, sec;
0.321 0 19 15.6
; print h2hm(24.321,hour=,min=), hour, min;
0.321 0 19.26
In addtion:
Renumbered regression tests 3408 thru 3437, to 9102 thru 9131.
Updated Added hms.cal resource file to use h2hms() builtin.
Updated Added dms.cal resource file to use d2dms() builtin.
Fix minor typo in help/mod SYNOPSIS.
Fix minor typo in help/quo SYNOPSIS.
Added a few more examples to help/strcmp.
A .bak file was accicently put into the DETAIL_HELP list.
That bogus help file was removed.
Modified the help/Makefile detail_help_list rule to remove .bak files
when forming DETAIL_HELP.
Updated CHANGES.
Updated help/unexpected.
Added help files for d2g(), d2r(), g2d(), g2r(), r2d(), r2g().
Added regression test code for the same functions.
Fixed a few minor typos.
Similar to scientific mode, engineering mode also displays numbers in
base 10 exponential notation, with the difference that exponents are
always multiples of 3, to facilitate the interpretation in terms of
SI prefixes.
The mode is activated in config thru "engineering" or "eng. For base
and base2, it uses the special value 1000.
Replaced /usr/local with the use of ${PREFIX} in calc Makefiles.
The ${PREFIX} is not the same as ${T}. The ${T} specifies
a top level directory under which calc installs things.
While usally ${T} is empty, it can be specific path
as if calc where "chrooted" during an install.
The ${PREFIX} value, during install, is a path between
the top level ${T} install directory and the object
such as an include file.
Corrected a few more typos in Makefile comments.
The following are the changes in this release:
Fixed typo (missing quotes) in the env rule.
Fixed intendation problem in CHANGES.
Combined 2.12.9.1 changes into the 2.12.8.2 to 2.12.9.0
range, and thus renamed the range to 2.12.8.2 to 2.12.9.1.
Fixed issues related to building Makefile.simple.
Fixed how the Makefile variable MANPATH is set for macOS.
Added a bunch of information to the near bottom of HOWTO.INSTALL
on calc Makefiles. This information discusses the various
Makefiles found in the calc source.
Added comments in various calc Makefiles about their origin.
In particular, for Makefiles that are constructed such as
Makefile.simple, custom/Makefile and custom/Makefile.simple
there are comments about how they were made.
For all calc Makefiles, including those in sub-directories,
near the top there is now a line of the form:
# SRC: ... some message about the origin ...
Fixed how the calc(1) man page is installed under macOS.
Fixed how calc man page in ${CATDIR} is formed.
Fixed how Makefile.simple is formed.
Fixed the #! calc script argument processing. The initial #!
line must end in a -f. For example, if calc is in /usr/local/bin/calc,
then the following would be the first line of a calc script:
#!/usr/local/bin/calc -f
...
It is common that -q be usde with a calc script, so assuming the
same /usr/local/bin/calc path:
#!/usr/local/bin/calc -q -f
...
Use of -s in the #! first line of a calc script is not needed
since -f implies -f.
The argv() will now return values more typical of C's main().
Before it returned one less than the number of arguments. Now,
for example, when calc is given 2 args, argv() will return 3.
The value of argv(0) will be the path to calc, or in the
case of a #! calc cscript, it will return the name of the script.
Updated the calc man page and help/argv to reflect the
above changes.
Improved the formatting of the calc man page.
Fixed the formation of the win32 sub-directory via the win32_hsrc
Makefile rule.
Due to incompatible changes to the argv() function, and #! calc
scripts, we are setting the version to the next minor number:
2.13.0
Added a bunch of information to the near bottom of HOWTO.INSTALL
on calc Makefiles. This information discusses the various
Makefiles found in the calc source.
Added comments in various calc Makefiles about their origin.
In particular, for Makefiles that are constructed such as
Makefile.simple, custom/Makefile and custom/Makefile.simple
there are comments about how they were made.
For all calc Makefiles, including those in sub-directories,
near the top there is now a line of the form:
# SRC: ... some message about the origin ...
The following are the changes in this release:
Fixed a typo typo in help/Makefile that caused the build of
2.12.9.0 to fail in a number of cases. Thanks to a report by
<GitHub user balducci>.
Pass form Makefile variables ${Q}, ${S}, ${E}, ${H} and ${V} down
to all sub-directory Makefiles from the top level Makefile.
Added notes to help/unexpected about:
display() will limit the number of digits printed after decimal point
%d will format after the decimal point for non-integer numeric values
%x will format as fractions for non-integer numeric values
fprintf(fd, "%d\n", huge_value) may need fflush(fd) to finish
Fixed Makefile dependencies for the args.h rule.
Fixed Makefile cases where echo with -n is used. On some systems,
/bin/sh does not use -n, so we must call /bin/echo -n instead
via the ${ECHON} Makefile variable.
Add missing standard tools to sub-Makefiles to make them
easier to invoke directly.
Sort lists of standard tool Makefile variables and remove duplicates.
Declare the SHELL at the top of Makefiles.
Fixed the depend rule in the custom Makefile.
Improved the messages produced by the depend in the Makefiles.
Changed the UNUSED define in have_unused.h to be a macro with
a parameter. Changed all use of UNUSED in *.c to be UNUSED(x).
Removed need for HAVE_UNUSED in building the have_unused.h file.
CCBAN is given to ${CC} in order to control if banned.h is in effect.
The banned.h attempts to ban the use of certain dangerous functions
that, if improperly used, could compromise the computational integrity
if calculations.
In the case of calc, we are motivated in part by the desire for calc
to correctly calculate: even during extremely long calculations.
If UNBAN is NOT defined, then calling certain functions
will result in a call to a non-existent function (link error).
While we do NOT encourage defining UNBAN, there may be
a system / compiler environment where re-defining a
function may lead to a fatal compiler complication.
If that happens, consider compiling as:
make clobber all chk CCBAN=-DUNBAN
as see if this is a work-a-round.
If YOU discover a need for the -DUNBAN work-a-round, PLEASE tell us!
Please send us a bug report. See the file:
BUGS
or the URL:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-bugrept.html
for how to send us such a bug report.
Added the building of have_ban_pragma.h, which will determine
if "#pragma GCC poison func_name" is supported. If it is not,
or of HAVE_PRAGMA_GCC_POSION=-DHAVE_NO_PRAGMA_GCC_POSION, then
banned.h will have no effect.
Fixed building of the have_getpgid.h file.
Fixed building of the have_getprid.h file.
Fixed building of the have_getsid.h file.
Fixed building of the have_gettime.h file.
Fixed building of the have_strdup.h file.
Fixed building of the have_ustat.h file.
Fixed building of the have_rusage.h file.
Added HAVE_NO_STRLCPY to control if we want to test if
the system has a strlcpy() function. This in turn produces
the have_strlcpy.h file wherein the symbol HAVE_STRLCPY will
be defined, or not depending if the system comes with a
strlcpy() function.
If the system does not have a strlcpy() function, we
compile our own strlcpy() function. See strl.c for details.
Added HAVE_NO_STRLCAT to control if we want to test if
the system has a strlcat() function. This in turn produces
the have_strlcat.h file wherein the symbol HAVE_STRLCAT will
be defined, or not depending if the system comes with a
strlcat() function.
If the system does not have a strlcat() function, we
compile our own strlcat() function. See strl.c for details.
Fixed places were <string.h>, using #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
for legacy systems that do not have that include file.
Added ${H} Makefile symbol to control the announcement
of forming and having formed hsrc related files. By default
H=@ (announce hsrc file formation) vs. H=@: to silence hsrc
related file formation.
Explicitly turn off quiet mode (set Makefile variable ${Q} to
be empty) when building rpms.
Improved and fixed the hsrc build process.
Forming rpms is performed in verbose mode to assist debugging
to the rpm build process.
Compile custom code, if needed, after main code is compiled.
Fixed Makefile dependenies for the args.h rule.
Fixed Makefile cases where echo with -n is used. On some systems,
/bin/sh does not use -n, so we must call /bin/echo -n instead
via the ${ECHON} Makefile variable.
Add missing standard tools to sub-Makefiles to make them
easier to invoke directly.
Sort lists of standard tool Makefile variables and remove duplicates.
Declare the SHELL at the top of Makefiles.
Fixed the depend rule in the custom Makefile.
Fixed a mistake in "help intro" where some inserted text
changed the value of "." and thus made the next result
incorrect.
Clarified in "help factor" that 1 is returned if no
factor below the limit was found.
Removed Makefile variable ${MAKEFILE_REV}.
The missing cscript/square.calc file has been restored.
Fixed compiler errors and warnings related to GCC.
In particular, gcc/9.3.1 and gcc/10.2.1 now compile
calc without any compiler errors or warnings,
even with -Werror -Wextra -pedantic.
To print out information about the calc compliation
environment, we added the following make rule:
make calcinfo
Improved how 'make debug' operates.
Moved help/contrib to CONTRIB-CODE. The help/contrib file
is now build from a copy of CONTRIB-CODE.
Created a new calc bug report Email address. Created a new calc
question Email address. Created a new calc contribution Email
address. See the BUGS file for details.
Added "help questions" to print the QUESIONS help file.
If the environment variable $CALCHELP is defined and is non-empty,
then calc help files will be in the direcgory by the $CALCHISTFILE
environment variable.
If the environment variable $CALCCUSTOMHELP is defined and is
non-empty, then custom calc help files will be in the direcgory
by the $CALCCUSTOMHELP environment variable.
The calc-tester mailing list has been retired. See:
* How to submit a calc bug report:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-bugrept.html
* How to contribute code to calc:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-contrib.html
* How to submit a question about calc:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-question.html
By default, the calc history file is located in ~/.calc_history.
Now, if the environment variable $CALCHISTFILE is defined
and is non-empty, then calc history file will be defined
by the $CALCHISTFILE environment variable.
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
This code %g is preliminary.
Fixed some code style issues to match the current code style.
Added regression tests and help file updates to printf and strprintf.
Fixed use of magic number -4: using -P instead.
Noted two problem areas with XXX comments in qio.c:
1) need a qprintfg function
2) re-write to not 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}.
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!
