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bcal v2.4
2022-01-24
- support "exit" and "quit" at prompt
- fix lint report
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bcal v2.3
2021-10-09
- show binary conversion output in octets for readability
- handle `^D`
- quit program or 'exit' or 'quit'
- fix broken terminal with calc as backend on "undefined input" (#36)
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bcal v2.2
2020-01-07
What's in?
- Support [`calc`](http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/) for multi-base expressions
- To use `calc`, `export BCAL_USE_CALC=1`
- Fix lint issues
- Fix issue #30
- Updated auto-generated packages
- More portable Makefile
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bcal v2.1
2018-12-11
What's in?
- Support for C bitwise operators (`|`, `^`, `&`)
- Support floating point in unit conversion
- Support hex in expressions
- Persistent readline history
- Static-analysis (clang-tidy and coverity) integration
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bcal v2.0
2018-10-02
What's in?
- `bc` mode for general purpose calculations
- Bitwise shift (<< and >>) operations
- Base conversion in interactive mode
- Prompt help
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bcal v1.9
2018-05-21
What's in?
- REPL mode with last result stored
- Division of an unit by another unit
- Detect truncation due to division in expressions
- Use `bc` to evaluate expressions that cannot be handled
- Show storage unit (B for byte) in minimal mode
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bcal v1.8
2018-03-12
What's in?
- Dependency on libquadmath dropped (`bcal` will be on Homebrew soon!)
- Option `-b` to show byte size of basic data types
- Limit unit conversions to `long double` (`__float128_t` is not portable)
- Fix test case failures on OS X
- Generate packages for many more distro versions
- Automated build and test for gcc, clang (Linux and OS X) and musl-gcc (Linux)
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bcal v1.7
2017-10-07
What's in?
- PackageCore integration
- Automated testing in Travis CI
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bcal v1.6
2017-06-30
What's in?
- Evaluate storage arithmetic expressions involving +, -, *, /
- A minimal mode (option `-m`) to show result in bytes
- Assume byte if unit is omitted for a conversion
- A Python3 test framework with multiple test cases
- Several fixes and additional sanity checks on input
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bcal v1.5
2017-04-10
Modifications
- Support binary and octal in CHS2LBA and LBA2CHS conversions
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bcal v1.4
2016-10-17
Modifications
- Travis integration
- RPM generation via Travis and Docker
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bcal v1.1
2016-10-04
Modifications
- Rename utility to bcal (Byte CALculator)
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calb v1.0
2016-09-29
Initial features
- convert to IEC/SI standard data storage units
- show the address in bytes
- show address as LBA:OFFSET
- convert CHS to LBA and vice versa
- show binary, decimal and hex representation of a number
- custom sector size, max heads/cylinder and max sectors/track
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