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@@ -1,3 +1,87 @@ + Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, + 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, + are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright + notice and this notice are preserved. + +Changes from 3.1.5 to 3.1.6 +--------------------------- + +1. `gawk 'program' /non/existant/file' no longer core dumps. + +2. Too many people the world over have complained about gawk's use of the + locale's decimal point for parsing input data instead of the traditional + period. So, even though gawk was being nicely standards-compliant, in + a Triumph For The Users, gawk now only uses the locale's decimal point + if --posix is supplied or if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. It is the sincere + hope that this change will eliminate this FAQ from being asked. + +3. `gawk -v BINMODE=1 ...' works again. + +4. Internal file names like `/dev/user' now work again. (Note that these + file names are obsolete and will go away eventually.) + +5. Problems with wide strings in non "C" locales have been straightened + out everywhere. (At least, we think so.) + +6. Use of `ansi2knr' is no longer supported. Please use an ANSI C compiler. + +7. Updated to Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10, and Gettext 0.16.1. + +8. The getopt* and regex* files were synchronized with current GLIBC CVS. + See the ChangeLog for the versions and minor edits made. + +9. There are additional --lint-old warnings. + +10. Gawk now uses getaddrinfo(3) to look up names and IP addresses. This + allows the use of an IPv6 format address and paves the way for + eventual addition of `/inet6/...' and `/inet4/...' hostnames. + +11. We believe gawk to now be valgrind clean. At least when run against + the test suite. + +12. A number of issues dealing with the formatting and printing of very + large numbers in integer formats have been dealt with and fixed. + +13. Gawk now converts "+inf", "-inf", "+nan" and "-nan" into the corresponding + magic IEEE floating point values. Only those strings (case independent) + work. With --posix, gawk calls the system strtod directly. You asked + for it, you got it, you deal with it. + +14. Defining YYDEBUG enables the -D command line option. + +15. Gawk should now work out of the box on Tandem NSK/OSS systems. + +16. Lint messages rationalized: many more of the messages are now printed + only once, instead of every time they are encountered. + +17. The strftime() function now accepts an optional third argument, which + if non-zero or non-null, indicates that the time should be formatted + as UTC instead of as local time. + +18. The precedence of concatenation and `| getline' (in something like + "echo " "date" | getline stuff) has been reverted to the earlier + behavior and now once again matches Unix awk. + +19. New configure time flag --disable-directories-fatal which causes + gawk to silently skip directories on the command line. This behavior + is also enabled for --traditional, since it's what Unix awk does. + +20. A new option, --use-lc-numeric, forces use of the locale's decimal + point without the rest of the draconian restrictions imposed by + --posix. This softens somewhat the stance taken in item #2. + +21. Everything relevant has been updated to the GPL 3. + +22. Array growth should be faster now, at no cost in space. + +23. Lots more tests. + +24. One new translation. + +25. Various bugs fixed, see the ChangeLog for details. + Changes from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5 --------------------------- |