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@@ -1,5 +1,58 @@ -Changes from 2.15.6 to 3.0 --------------------------- +Changes from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 +--------------------------- + +Troff source for a handy-dandy five color reference card is now provided. +Thanks to SSC for their macros. + +Gawk now behaves like Unix awk and mawk, in that newline acts as white +space for separating fields and for split(), by default. In posix mode, +only space and tab separate fields. The documentation has been updated to +reflect this. + +Tons and tons of small bugs fixed and new tests added, see the ChangeLogs. + +Lots fewer compile time warnings from gcc -Wall. Remaining ones aren't +worth fixing. + +Gawk now pays some attention to the locale settings. + +Fixes to gsub to catch several corner cases. + +The `print' statement now evaluates all expressions first, and then +prints them. This leads to less suprising behaviour if any expression has +output side effects. + +Miscellanious improvements in regex.h and regex.c. + +Gawk will now install itself as gawk-M.N.P in $(bindir), and link +`gawk' to it. This makes it easy to have multiple versions of gawk +simultaneously. It will also now install itself as `awk' in $(bindir) +if there is no `awk' there. This is in addition to installing itself as +`gawk'. This change benefits the Hurd, and possibly other systems. One +day, gawk will drop the `g', but not yet. + +`--posix' turns on interval expressions. Gawk now matches its documentation. + +`close(FILENAME)' now does something meaningful. + +Field management code in field.c majorly overhauled, several times. + +The gensub code has been fixed, several bugs are now gone. + +Gawk will use mmap for data file input if it is available. + +The printf/sprintf code has been improved. + +Minor issues in Makefile setup worked on and improved. + +builtin.c:do_substr rationalized. + +Regex matching fixed so that /+[0-9]/ now matches the leading +. + +For building on vms, the default compiler is now DEC C rather than VAX C. + +Changes from 2.15.6 to 3.0.0 +---------------------------- Fixed spelling of `Programming' in the copyright notice in all the files. @@ -73,7 +126,7 @@ accepted but generates a lint warning. `next file' will go away eventually. Gawk with --lint will now notice empty source files and empty data files. -Amiga support using the Unix emulation added. Thanks to fnf@amigalib.com. +Amiga support using the Unix emulation added. Thanks to fnf@ninemoons.com. test/Makefile is now "parallel-make safe". @@ -82,8 +135,7 @@ pure posix regexps, and --compat goes to traditional Unix regexps. However, interval expressions, even though specified by POSIX, are turned off by default, to avoid breaking old code. -IGNORECASE now applies to *everything*, string comparison as well -as regexp operations. +IGNORECASE now applies to string comparison as well as regexp operations. The AT&T Bell Labs Research awk fflush builtin function is now supported. fflush is extended to flush stdout if no arg and everything if given |