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diff --git a/contrib/bc/NEWS.md b/contrib/bc/NEWS.md index 3b1477cafb26..f35d593b807a 100644 --- a/contrib/bc/NEWS.md +++ b/contrib/bc/NEWS.md @@ -1,5 +1,35 @@ # News +## 5.0.2 + +This is a production release with one fix for a flaky test. If you have not +experienced problems with the test suite, you do ***NOT*** need to upgrade. + +The test was one that tested whether `bc` fails gracefully when it can't +allocate memory. Unfortunately, there are cases when Linux and FreeBSD lie and +pretend to allocate the memory. + +The reason they do this is because a lot of programs don't use all of the memory +they allocate, so those OS's usually get away with it. + +However, this `bc` uses all of the memory it allocates (at least at page +granularity), so when it tries to use the memory, FreeBSD and Linux kill it. + +This only happens sometimes, however. Other times (on my machine), they do, in +fact, refuse the request. + +So I changed the test to not test for that because I think the graceful failure +code won't really change much. + +## 5.0.1 + +This is a production release with two fixes: + +* Fix for the build on Mac OSX. +* Fix for the build on Android. + +Users that do not use those platforms do ***NOT*** need to update. + ## 5.0.0 This is a major production release with several changes: |