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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gawk.1 | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | main.c | 16 |
4 files changed, 8 insertions, 42 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-02-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * main.c (main): Remove undocumented -m option which was for + compatibility with BWK awk. His awk dropped it back in 2007. + 2013-02-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * regcomp.c, regex.c, regex_internal.c, regexec.c: Update diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 5e82cf9c..0e0f912c 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ * gawk.texi: For Info output, don't use @center on text images since the new makeinfo doesn't yet center the file as a block. Thanks to Karl Berry for the diagnostic. + * gawk.1: Remove commented out doc for -m option which was for + compatibility with BWK awk. His awk dropped it back in 2007. 2013-01-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -159,33 +159,6 @@ before execution of the program begins. Such variable values are available to the .B BEGIN block of an \*(AK program. -.ig -.TP -.PD 0 -.BI \-mf " NNN" -.TP -.PD -.BI \-mr " NNN" -Set various memory limits to the value -.IR NNN . -The -.B f -flag sets the maximum number of fields, and the -.B r -flag sets the maximum record size. These two flags and the -.B \-m -option are from an earlier version of the Bell Laboratories -research version of \*(UX -.IR awk . -They are ignored by -.IR gawk , -since -.I gawk -has no pre-defined limits. -(Current versions of the Bell Laboratories -.I awk -no longer accept them.) -.. .TP .PD 0 .B \-b @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) /* * The + on the front tells GNU getopt not to rearrange argv. */ - const char *optlist = "+F:f:v:W;m:bcCd::D::e:E:gh:i:l:L:nNo::Op::MPrStVY"; + const char *optlist = "+F:f:v:W;bcCd::D::e:E:gh:i:l:L:nNo::Op::MPrStVY"; bool stopped_early = false; int old_optind; int i; @@ -348,20 +348,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) add_preassign(PRE_ASSIGN, optarg); break; - case 'm': - /* - * BWK awk extension. - * -mf nnn set # fields, gawk ignores - * -mr nnn set record length, ditto - * - * As of at least 10/2007, BWK awk also ignores it. - */ - if (do_lint) - lintwarn(_("`-m[fr]' option irrelevant in gawk")); - if (optarg[0] != 'r' && optarg[0] != 'f') - warning(_("-m option usage: `-m[fr] nnn'")); - break; - case 'b': do_binary = true; break; |