Wow, that was fast.  The patch looks good here: now all tests pass on systems 
with and without the Math::BigInt changes.  Thanks!

> On Mar 25, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Richard Levitte via RT <r...@openssl.org> wrote:
> 
> I've attached a tentative patch for test/recipes/bc.pl. Would you be willing 
> to
> try it out?
> 

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> diff --git a/test/recipes/bc.pl b/test/recipes/bc.pl
> index 29a4a8a..f7d4dc6 100644
> --- a/test/recipes/bc.pl
> +++ b/test/recipes/bc.pl
> @@ -46,7 +46,16 @@ sub __multiplier {
>       if ($operator eq "*") {
>           $operand1->bmul($operand2);
>       } elsif ($operator eq "/") {
> +         # Math::BigInt->bdiv() is documented to do floored division,
> +         # i.e. 1 / -4 = -1, while bc and OpenSSL BN_div do truncated
> +         # division, i.e. 1 / -4 = 0.  We need to make the operation
> +         # work like OpenSSL's BN_div to be able to verify.
> +         my $neg = ($operand1->is_neg()
> +                    ? !$operand2->is_neg() : $operand2->is_neg());
> +         $operand1->babs();
> +         $operand2->babs();
>           $operand1->bdiv($operand2);
> +         if ($neg) { $operand1->bneg(); }
>       } elsif ($operator eq "%") {
>           # Here's a bit of a quirk...
>           # With OpenSSL's BN, as well as bc, the result of -10 % 3 is -1

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