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1 files changed, 99 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,91 @@ +Changes from 2.15.4 to 2.15.5 +----------------------------- + +FUTURES file updated and re-arranged some with more rational schedule. + +Many prototypes handled better for ANSI C in protos.h. + +getopt.c updated somewhat. + +test/Makefile now removes junk directory, `bardargtest' renamed `badargs.' + +Bug fix in iop.c for RS = "". Eat trailing newlines off of record separator. + +Bug fix in Makefile.bsd44, use leading tab in actions. + +Fix in field.c:set_FS for FS == "\\" and IGNORECASE != 0. + +Config files updated or added: + cray60, DEC OSF/1 2.0, Utek, sgi405, next21, next30, atari/config.h, + sco. + +Fix in io.c for ENFILE as well as EMFILE, update decl of groupset to +include OSF/1. + +Rationalized printing as integers if numbers are outside the range of a long. +Changes to node.c:force_string and builtin.c. + +Made internal NF, NR, and FNR variables longs instead of ints. + +Add LIMITS_H_MISSING stuff to config.in and awk.h, and default defs for +INT_MAX and LONG_MAX, if no limits.h file. Add a standard decl of +the time() function for __STDC__. From ghazi@noc.rutgers.edu. + +Fix tree_eval in awk.h and r_tree_eval in eval.c to deal better with +function parameters, particularly ones that are arrays. + +Fix eval.c to print out array names of arrays used in scalar contexts. + +Fix eval.c in interpret to zero out source and sourceline initially. This +does a better job of providing source file and line number information. + +Fix to re_parse_field in field.c to not use isspace when RS = "", but rather +to explicitly look for blank and tab. + +Fix to sc_parse_field in field.c to catch the case of the FS character at the +end of a record. + +Lots of miscellanious bug fixes for memory leaks, courtesy Mark Moraes, +also fixes for arrays. + +io.c fixed to warn about lack of explicit closes if --lint. + +Updated missing/strftime.c to match posted strftime 6.2. + +Bug fix in builtin.c, in case of non-match in sub_common. + +Updated constant used for division in builtin.c:do_rand for DEC Alpha +and CRAY Y-MP. + +POSIXLY_CORRECT in the environment turns on --posix (fixed in main.c). + +Updated srandom prototype and calls in builtin.c. + +Fix awk.y to enforce posix semantics of unary +: result is numeric. + +Fix array.c to not rearrange the hash chain upon finding an index in +the array. This messed things up in cases like: + for (index1 in array) { + blah + if (index2 in array) # blew away the for + stuff + } + +Fixed spelling errors in the man page. + +Fixes in awk.y so that + gawk '' /path/to/file +will work without core dumping or finding parse errors. + +Fix main.c so that --lint will fuss about an empty program. +Yet another fix for argument parsing in the case of unrecognized options. + +Bug fix in dfa.c to not attempt to free null pointers. + +Bug fix in builtin.c to only use DEFAULT_G_PRECISION for %g or %G. + +Bug fix in field.c to achieve call by value semantics for split. + Changes from 2.15.3 to 2.15.4 ----------------------------- @@ -26,7 +114,7 @@ New bionic (faster, better, stronger than before) hashing function. Bug fix in argument handling. `gawk -X' now notices there was no program. Additional bug fixes to make --compat and --lint work again. -Many changes for 16-bit cleanliness. +Many changes for systems where sizeof(int) != sizeof(void *). Add explicit alloca(0) in io.c to recover space from C alloca. @@ -64,7 +152,7 @@ More getpgrp() defines. Changes for BSD44: <sys/param.h> in io.c and Makefile.bsd44. -All directories in the distribution are now writeable. +All directories in the distribution are now writable. Separated LDFLAGS and CFLAGS in Makefile. CFLAGS can now be overridden by user. @@ -258,7 +346,7 @@ Added code to do better diagnoses of weird or null file names. Allow continue outside of a loop, unless in strict posix mode. Lint option will issue warning. -New missing/strftime.c. There has been one chage that affects gawk. Posix +New missing/strftime.c. There has been one change that affects gawk. Posix now defines a %V conversion so the vms conversion has been changed to %v. If this version is used with gawk -Wlint and they use %V in a call to strftime, they'll get a warning. @@ -286,7 +374,7 @@ Fixed a couple of bugs for reference to $0 when $0 is "" -- particularly in Fixed premature freeing in construct "$0 = $0". Removed the call to wait_any() in gawk_popen(), since on at least some systems, - if gawk's input was from a pipe, the predecssor process in the pipe was a + if gawk's input was from a pipe, the predecessor process in the pipe was a child of gawk and this caused a deadlock. Regexp can (once again) match a newline, if given explicitly. @@ -312,7 +400,7 @@ Fixed bug when NF is set by user -- fields_arr must be expanded if necessary Fixed several bugs in [g]sub() for no match found or the match is 0-length. -Fixed bug where in gsub() a pattern anchorred at the beginning would still +Fixed bug where in gsub() a pattern anchored at the beginning would still substitute throughout the string. make test does not assume the . is in PATH. @@ -332,7 +420,7 @@ Fixed hanging of pipe redirection to getline Fixed coredump on access to $0 inside BEGIN block. Fixed treatment of RS = "". It now parses the fields correctly and strips - leading whitspace from a record if FS is a space. + leading whitespace from a record if FS is a space. Fixed faking of /dev/stdin. @@ -376,7 +464,7 @@ Update to config/bsd43. Added config/apollo, config/msc60, config/cray2-50, config/interactive2.2 -sgi33.cc added for compilation using cc ratther than gcc. +sgi33.cc added for compilation using cc rather than gcc. Ultrix41 now propagates to config.h properly -- as part of a general mechanism in configure for kludges -- #define anything from a config file @@ -697,7 +785,7 @@ Fixed bug in output flushing introduced a few patches back. This caused Changes from 2.12.22 to 2.12.23 ------------------------------- -Accidently left config/cray2-60 out of last patch. +Accidentally left config/cray2-60 out of last patch. Added some missing dependencies to Makefile. @@ -847,7 +935,7 @@ Changes from 2.12.14 to 2.12.15 ------------------------------- Changed config/* to a condensed form that can be used with mkconf to generate - a config.h from config.h-dist -- much easier to maintain. Please chaeck + a config.h from config.h-dist -- much easier to maintain. Please check carefully against what you had before for a particular system and report any problems. vms.h remains separate since the stuff at the bottom didn't quite fit the mkconf model -- hopefully cleared up later. @@ -1199,7 +1287,7 @@ Changes from 2.11beta to 2.11.1 (production) Went from "beta" to production status!!! Now flushes stdout before closing pipes or redirected files to -synchonize output. +synchronize output. MS-DOS changes added in. @@ -1314,7 +1402,7 @@ Cleaned up and fixed close_redir(). Fixed an obscure bug to do with redirection. Intermingled ">" and ">>" redirects did not output in a predictable order. -Improved handling of output bufferring: now all print[f]s redirected to a tty +Improved handling of output buffering: now all print[f]s redirected to a tty or pipe are flushed immediately and non-redirected output to a tty is flushed before the next input record is read. |