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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ - Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 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 4.1.1 to 4.2.0 +Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 --------------------------- 1. If not in POSIX mode, changes to ENVIRON are reflected into @@ -16,13 +16,23 @@ Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.2.0 get the same series of numbers each time you call rand() repeatedly, but this will be a different series than previously. +Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 +--------------------------- + +1. The manual has been considerably improved. + - Thoroughly reviewed and updated. + - Out-of-date examples replaced. + - Chapter 15 on MPFR reworked. + - Summary sections added to all chapters. + - Exercises added in several chapters. + Changes from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 --------------------------- 1. The "stat" extension now includes a "devbsize" element which indicates - the units for the "nblocks" element + the units for the "nblocks" element. -2. The extension facility works on MinGW. Many of the extensions can be +2. The extension facility now works on MinGW. Many of the extensions can be built and used directly. 3. A number of bugs in the pretty-printing / profiling code have been fixed. @@ -31,18 +41,36 @@ Changes from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 5. The debugger now lists source code correctly under Cygwin. -6. Configuration and building Mac OS X libreadline should work now. +6. Configuration and building with the Mac OS X libreadline should work now. 7. The -O option now works again. 8. The --include option, documented since 4.0, now actually works. -9. Infrastructure updated to automake 1.13.4 and libtool 2.4.2.418. +9. Infrastructure updated to automake 1.13.4, bison 3.0.2, and + libtool 2.4.2.418. 10. The configure script now accepts a --disable-extensions option, -which disables checking for and building the extensions. + which disables checking for and building the extensions. + +11. The VMS port has been considerably improved. In particular config.h + is now generated by a DCL script. Also, the extension facility works + and several of the extensions can be built and used. Currently, the + extension facility only works on Alpha and Itanium. + +12. The API now provides functions pointers for malloc(), calloc(), + realloc() and free(), to insure that the same memory allocation + functions are always used. This bumps the minor version by one. + +13. The printf quote flag now works correctly in locales with a different + decimal point character but without a thousands separator character. + If the thousands separator is a string, it will be correctly added + to decimal numbers. + +14. The readfile extension now has an input parser that will read whole + files as a single record. -XXX. A number of bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog. +15. A number of bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog. Changes from 4.0.2 to 4.1.0 --------------------------- |