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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2021-02-08 09:25:34 +0200
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2021-02-08 09:25:34 +0200
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Merge branch 'gawk-5.1-stable'
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- Copyright (C) 2019, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2019, 2020, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ regular numbers; it should not be noticeable most of the time.
Changes from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
---------------------------
-1. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.7.1, Gettext 0.20.2.
+1. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.7.1, Gettext 0.20.2, Automake 1.16.2.
2. asort and asorti now allow FUNCTAB and SYMTAB as the first argument if a
second destination array is supplied. Similarly, using either array as
@@ -34,21 +34,23 @@ Changes from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
details if you have an extension using those values. As a result,
the minor version was incremented.
-6. The duplication of m4 and build-aux directories between the main
+6. $0 and the fields are now cleared before starting a BEGINFILE rule.
+
+7. The duplication of m4 and build-aux directories between the main
directory and the extension directory has been removed. This
simplifies the distribution.
-7. The test suite has been improved, making it easier to run the entire
+8. The test suite has been improved, making it easier to run the entire
suite with -M. Use `GAWK_TEST_ARGS=-M make check' to do so.
-8. Profiling and pretty-printing output has been modified slightly so
+9. Profiling and pretty-printing output has been modified slightly so
that functions are presented in a reasonable order with respect
to the namespaces that contain them.
-9. Several example programs in the manual have been updated to their
- modern POSIX equivalents.
+10. Several example programs in the manual have been updated to their
+ modern POSIX equivalents.
-10. Handling of Infinity and NaN values has been improved.
+11. Handling of Infinity and NaN values has been improved.
xx. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
ChangeLog for details.