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@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0
18. Support for GNU/Linux on Alpha systems has been removed.
19. Optimizations are now enabled by default. Use the new -s/--no-optimize
- option(s) to disable them. Pretty printing and profiling automatically
+ option(s) to disable them. Pretty-printing and profiling automatically
disable optimizations so that the output program is the same as the
original input program.
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0
20. Gawk now uses fwrite_unlocked if it's available. The yields a 7% - 18%
improvement in raw output speed (gawk '{ print }' on a large file).
-21. Pretty printing now uses the original text of constant numeric values for
- pretty printing and profiling.
+21. Pretty-printing now uses the original text of constant numeric values for
+ pretty-printing and profiling.
22. Passing negative operands to any of the bitwise functions now
produces a fatal error.
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0
28. The PROCINFO["argv"] array records all of gawk's command line arguments
as gawk received them (the values of the C level argv array).
+29. Pretty-printing now preserves parenthesized expressions as they
+ were in the source file. This solves several niggling corner cases
+ with such things.
+
Changes from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4
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