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Support for new SI prefixes R, Q

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Coreutils bugs <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Support for new SI prefixes R, Q
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:11:46 -0800

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Building on Pádraig's Gnulib patches of November, I installed the 
attached to add support to Coreutils for the new SI prefixes R and Q.

It'll be a while before 'df -h' outputs them, as I'm not expecting file 
systems in the ronnabyte range soon, given that the total amount of data 
storage in the world is still less than a yottabyte, and given that 
we'll need 128-bit integers support all this consistently. Still, the 
new R and Q prefixes are supported by 'sort' and 'numfmt' as-is.

[0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-ls-adjust-to-Gnulib-renaming.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0003-numfmt-add-support-for-new-SI-prefixes.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #14 received at 60583-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 60583-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60583: Support for new SI prefixes R, Q
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 14:31:19 +0000

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On 05/01/2023 21:11, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Building on Pádraig's Gnulib patches of November, I installed the
> attached to add support to Coreutils for the new SI prefixes R and Q.
> 
> It'll be a while before 'df -h' outputs them, as I'm not expecting file
> systems in the ronnabyte range soon, given that the total amount of data
> storage in the world is still less than a yottabyte, and given that
> we'll need 128-bit integers support all this consistently. Still, the
> new R and Q prefixes are supported by 'sort' and 'numfmt' as-is.

Thanks for doing that.
I see you missed my proposal from Nov,
which I didn't commit since I had a similar more complete
local patch set I was working on.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2022-11/msg00027.html

We ended up with almost exactly the same thing which is good.

Attached are some further tweaks,
which I've pushed just now.

Marking this as done.

cheers,
Pádraig

[ronna-quetta-adjustments.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #17 received at 60583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 60583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60583: Support for new SI prefixes R, Q
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 10:08:53 -0800

On 2023-01-06 06:31, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
> We ended up with almost exactly the same thing which is good.

Oh, ouch, I had forgotten you'd posted that numfmt patch . Thanks for 
merging the results and correcting my mistakes.

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