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@@ -1,3 +1,87 @@ +Changes from 2.14 to 2.15 +--------------------------- + +Command-line source can now be mixed with library functions. + +ARGIND variable tracks index in ARGV of FILENAME. + +GNU style long options in addition to short options. + +Plan 9 style special files interpreted by gawk: + /dev/pid + /dev/ppid + /dev/pgrpid + /dev/user + $1 = getuid + $2 = geteuid + $3 = getgid + $4 = getegid + $5 ... $NF = getgroups if supported + +ERRNO variable contains error string if getline or close fails. + +Very old options -a and -e have gone away. + +Inftest has been removed from the default target in test/Makefile -- the + results were too machine specific and resulted in too many false alarms. + +A README.amiga has been added. + +The "too many arguments supplied for format string" warning message is only + in effect under the lint option. + +Code improvements in dfa.c. + +Fixed all reported bugs: + + Writes are checked for failure (such as full filesystem). + + Stopped (at least some) runaway error messages. + + gsub(/^/, "x") does the right thing for $0 of 0, 1, or more length. + + close() on a command being piped to a getline now works properly. + + The input record will no longer be freed upon an explicit close() + of the input file. + + A NUL character in FS now works. + + In a substitute, \\& now means a literal backslash followed by what + was matched. + + Integer overflow of substring length in substr() is caught. + + An input record without a newline termination is handled properly. + + In io.c, check is against only EMFILE so that system file table + is not filled. + + Renamed all files with names longer than 14 characters. + + Escaped characters in regular expressions were being lost when + IGNORECASE was used. + + Long source lines were not being handled properly. + + Sourcefiles that ended in a tab but no newline were bombing. + + Patterns that could match zero characters in split() were not working + properly. + + The parsedebug option was not working. + + The grammar was being a bit too lenient, allowing some very dubious + programs to pass. + + Compilation with DEBUG defined now works. + + A variable read in with getline was not being treated as a potential + number. + + Array subscripts were not always of string type. + + Changes from 2.13.2 to 2.14 --------------------------- |