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@@ -1,3 +1,110 @@ +Changes from 2.15.6 to 3.0 +-------------------------- + +Fixed spelling of `Programming' in the copyright notice in all the files. + +New --re-interval option to turn on interval expressions. They're off +by default, except for --posix, to avoid breaking old programs. + +Passing regexp constants as parameters to user defined functions now +generates a lint warning. + +Several obscure regexp bugs fixed; alas, a small number remain. + +The manual has been thoroughly revised. It's now almost 50% bigger than +it used to be. + +The `+' modifier in printf is now reset correctly for each item. + +The do_unix variable is now named do_traditional. + +Handling of \ in sub and gsub rationalized (somewhat, see the manual for +the gory [and I do mean gory] details). + +IGNORECASE now uses ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 instead of straight ASCII. See the +source for how to revert to pure ASCII. + +--lint will now warn if an assignment occurs in a conditional context. +This may become obnoxious enough to need turning off in the future, but +"it seemed like a good idea at the time." + +%hf and %Lf are now diagnosed as invalid in printf, just like %lf. + +Gawk no longer incorrectly closes stdin in child processes used in +input pipelines. + +For integer formats, gawk now correctly treats the precision as the +number of digits to print, not the number of characters. + +gawk is now much better at catching the use of scalar values when +arrays are needed, both in function calls and the `x in y' constructs. + +New gensub function added. See the manual. + +If do_tradtional is true, octal and hex escapes in regexp constants are +treated literally. This matches historical behavior. + +yylex/nextc fixed so that even null characters can be included +in the source code. + +do_format now handles cases where a format specifier doesn't end in +a control letter. --lint reports an error. + +strftime() now uses a default time format equivalent to that of the +Unix date command, thus it can be called with no arguments. + +Gawk now catches functions that are used but not defined at parse time +instead of at run time. (This is a lint error, making it fatal could break +old code.) + +Arrays that max out are now handled correctly. + +Integer formats outside the range of an unsigned long are now detected +correctly using the SunOS 4.x cc compiler. + +--traditional option added as new preferred name for --compat, in keeping +with GCC. + +--lint-old option added, so that warnings about things not in old awk +are only given if explicitly asked for. + +`next file' has changed to one word, `nextfile'. `next file' is still +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. + +test/Makefile is now "parallel-make safe". + +Gawk now uses POSIX regexps + GNU regex ops by default. --posix goes to +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. + +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 +the null string as an argument. + +If RS is more than one character, it is treated as a regular expression +and records are delimited accordingly. The variable RT is set to the record +terminator string. This is disabled in compatibility mode. + +If FS is set to the null string (or the third arg. of split() is the null +string), splitting is done at every single character. This is disabled in +compatibility mode. + +Gawk now uses the Autoconf generated configure script, doing away with all +the config/* files and the machinery that went with them. The Makefile.in +has also changed accordingly, complete with all the standard GNU Makefile +targets. (Non-unix systems may still have their own config.h and Makefile; +see the appropriate README_d/README.* and/or subdirectory.) + +The source code has been cleaned up somewhat and the formatting improved. + Changes from 2.15.5 to 2.15.6 ----------------------------- @@ -511,7 +618,7 @@ Fixed several bugs in [g]sub() for no match found or the match is 0-length. 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. +make test does not assume that . is in PATH. Fixed bug when a field beyond the end of the record was requested after $0 was altered (directly or indirectly). |