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and subject line Re: Bug#559432: bc: -6^2 = 36, which is actually wrong (should
be -36)
has caused the Debian Bug report #559432,
regarding bc: wrong operator precedence
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Package: bc
Version: 1.06.95-2
Severity: normal
bc evaluates under some expressions with the wrong operator precedence:
"-2^2" ==> "4" wrong, should be "-4"
"0-2^2" ==> "-4" correct
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bc depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.3.1 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline6 6.0-5 GNU readline and history libraries
bc recommends no packages.
bc suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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tag 559432 wontfix
thanks
Hi Nikolaus,
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:24:06PM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> bc does evaluate signed expressions in wrong order, more precice it
> handles operator precedence wrong under certain conditions:
Since this is the intended behaviour, as per the manpage and the IEEE
Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition specification of bc[0], I'm closing this bug.
Best wishes,
Ryan
[0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/bc.html
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