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@@ -4,6 +4,33 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +Changes from 5.1.x to 5.2.0 +--------------------------- + +1. Numeric scalars now compare in the same way as C for the relational +operators. Comparison order for sorting has not changed. This only +makes a difference when comparing Infinity and NaN values with +regular numbers; it should not be noticeable most of the time. + +2. If the AWK_HASH environment variable is set to "fnv1a" gawk will +use the FNV1-A hash function for associative arrays. + +3. The CMake infrastructure has been removed. In the five years it was in +the tree, nobody used it, and it was not updated. + +4. There is now a new function, mkbool(), that creates Boolean-typed +values. These values *are* numbers, but they are also tagged as +Boolean. This is mainly for use with data exchange to/from languages +or environments that support real Boolean values. See the manual +for details. + +5. As BWK awk has supported interval expressions since 2019, they are +now enabled even if --traditional is supplied. The -r/--re-interval option +remains, but it does nothing. + +6. The rwarray extension has two new functions, writeall() and readall(), +for saving / restoring all of gawk's variables and arrays. + Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 --------------------------- |