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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. -Changes from 4.0.1 to 4.1 +Changes from 4.0.2 to 4.1 ------------------------- 1. The three executables gawk, pgawk, and dgawk, have been merged into one, named just gawk. As a result: @@ -15,6 +15,26 @@ Changes from 4.0.1 to 4.1 * Use -p to do profiling. 2. The new -l option is used for loading dynamic extensions. + +3. The new -i option is used for loading awk library files. + +4. Gawk now supports high precision arithmetic with MPFR. + +5. A number of facilities from xgawk have been merged in! + +6. The dynamic extension interface has been completely redone! See the doc. + +7. The and(), or() and xor() functions now take any number of arguments, + with a minimum of two. + +8. New arrays: SYMTAB, FUNCTAB, and PROCINFO["identifiers"]. See the manual. + +Changes from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2 +--------------------------- + +1. Infrastructure upgrades: Autoconf 2.69, Automake 1.12.4, bison 2.6.5. + +2. Various minor bug fixes and documentation updates. Changes from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 --------------------------- |