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Re: [wcalc] \eng segmentation fault

On Tuesday, February 5 at 09:37 PM, quoth Daniele:
>On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:26:29PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> If nothing else, that's a documentation bug. It seems like, if its
>> important, perhaps the engineering-notation setting should be a
>> triple-option: "auto", "always", and "never". What do you think?
>I agree, I think this would be nice.

Committed to CVS.

The logic for some of the output formatting gets kinda convoluted, so
if someone could test it for me (it seems to work right to me), that'd
be excellent. Important settings are: precision, print_ints,
engineering, precision_guard, and output_format.

~Kyle
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Fri Feb 8, 2008 7:43 pm

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Hi, when wcalc starts and I type twice \eng it crashes: Enter an expression to evaluate, q to quit, or ? for help: -> \eng Engineering notation is enabled = 0 ...
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Feb 4, 2008
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more on \eng: Enter an expression to evaluate, q to quit, or ? for help: -> 10^-2.63 = 0.00234423 -> \e Engineering notation is enabled = 0.00234423 ->...
Daniele
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... The previous fix I posted fixes the toggle between enabled and disabled. As for converting to engineering notation, it does not (currently) do anything...
Kyle Wheeler
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Feb 4, 2008
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... I agree, I think this would be nice. Cheers, Daniele...
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Feb 5, 2008
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... Committed to CVS. The logic for some of the output formatting gets kinda convoluted, so if someone could test it for me (it seems to work right to me),...
Kyle Wheeler
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... Ahh, I see the error. Attached is the patch to fix it. I've committed the fix to CVS, and also added a few more bits to be a little more careful in other...
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