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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index fbcd9367..142f035e 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,8 +1,39 @@ +2017-03-17 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Improve the discussion of quoting on + MS-Windows. Original text contributed by + Vincent Belaiche <vincent.belaiche@gmail.com>. + +2017-03-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Additional small writing tip in the notes + after the @bye. + +2017-03-02 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Edits preparatory to release. + +2017-02-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawk.1: "timezone" --> "time zone". + * awkcard.in: Update copyright year. + +2017-02-21 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawk.1: Document new mktime optional 2nd utc-flag argument. + * gawktex.in: Ditto. + * awkcard.in: Ditto. + 2017-02-13 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Fix two typos. * wordlist.txt: Update. + Related: + + * gawktexi.in: Fix more typos. + * wordlist.txt: Update again. + 2017-01-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Update UPDATE-MONTH and copyright years. @@ -12,6 +43,68 @@ * gawktexi.in: Comment out stuff about awk.info, since that domain is now gone. +2016-12-05 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Explain why an API extension function might want + to use the AWK_STRNUM type to return data. + +2016-12-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Update API table of type requested / type returned. + +2016-12-22 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Minor edits after merging branches and some + additional work in the code. + +2016-12-17 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Further API clarifications and edits, add a + section on backwards compatibility. + +2016-12-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Update description of awk_ext_func_t structure, + again. + +2016-12-14 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Update description of awk_ext_func_t structure. + +2016-12-05 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document strnum changes as relates to API. + Still stuff left to do -- tables for type conversions need + to be updated to show new strnum and regex rows and columns. + +2016-12-04 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Remove make_regex and replace it with make_const_regex + and make_malloced_regex. + +2016-12-04 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document new flatten_array_typed API function, and + indicate that the old flatten_array function has been superseded. + +2016-11-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document typed regex changes as relates to API. + Still stuff left to do. + +2016-11-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Finish off discussion of strongly typed regexp + constants and put it in the right place in the manual. A few other + minor fixes. + * wordlist: Updated. + +2016-11-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Variable Typing): Rework and improve discussion + of strings, numbers, and strnums. Update description of strnum + in other places. + 2016-11-10 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Fix example use of dcngegttext. @@ -26,6 +119,18 @@ Works better for Info, text, and HTML. Thanks to Marco Curreli <marcocurreli@tiscali.it> for the report. +2016-11-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error. + * wordlist: Update. + +2016-10-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document that negative arguments are not allowed + for bitwise functions. Add a sidebar explaining it a bit and + also showing the difference with and without -M. + * gawk.1: Document that negative arguments are not allowed. + 2016-10-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Remove references to MS-DOS and OS/2, @@ -47,11 +152,18 @@ 2016-08-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + * gawktexi.in (POSIX String Comparison): Update for new + spec where == and != use strcmp, rest use strcoll. Thanks to + Chet Ramey for pointing me at the new rules. + +2016-08-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + * 4.1.4: Release tar ball made. 2016-08-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * wordlist: Add more words. + * gawktexi.in: Fix more typos. 2016-08-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -61,6 +173,18 @@ * gawktexi.in: Fix typos, adjust update date. * awkcard.in: Update copyright years. +2016-08-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + Restored doc on typed regexes. + + * gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Updated. + +2016-08-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + Remove typed regexes until they can be done properly. + + * gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Updated. + 2016-08-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Mark DJGPP port as unsupported. @@ -69,6 +193,12 @@ * gawktexi.in: Fix a typo. Thanks to Marco Curreli for reporting. +2016-07-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document return value of close on a pipe now like + that of system: exit status, status + 256 for signal, or + status + 512 for signal with core dump. + 2016-07-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Fix a typo. Thanks to Antonio Colombo for reporting. @@ -82,6 +212,16 @@ * gawktexi.in (Auto-set): Add example use of multiply function. +2016-06-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawk.1: Typo fix. Thanks to Antonio Giovanni Colombo + for noticing. + +2016-06-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawk.1: Document typeof(), update modified date. + * awkcard.in: Document typeof(). + 2016-06-10 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Fix a typo, and replace hard-coded "section" with @@ -90,6 +230,15 @@ (UPDATE-MONTH, PATCHLEVEL): Update to current before release. * awkcard.in: Update version. +2016-05-30 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Replace num_expected_args with max_expected_args. + Explain what it's used for. + +2016-05-25 Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com>. + + * gawktexi.in: Document new 'nonfatal' API function. + 2016-05-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Typo fix in extension section, thanks to @@ -106,6 +255,12 @@ out since 2001, index RFCs, change function name convention to match main gawktexi.in. Update the update month. +2016-04-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Document that writing to the closed + write end of a two way pipe or reading from the closed read end + can be made nonfatal. + 2016-04-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in, gawkinet.texi: Enable use of braces in @@ -116,6 +271,11 @@ * gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Document that closing the "from" end waits for the process to exit, so it's not such a great idea. +2016-03-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawkinet.texi: Small update about end of line vs full + comments when pretty printing. + 2016-03-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawkinet.texi: Update UDP client and discussion, update @@ -148,6 +308,8 @@ dlward134@gmail.com. Added an example of use of rewind(), also per suggestion from David Ward. * gawktexi.in: Update info about Texinfo versions. + * gawktexi.in (Limitations): Fix Heisenberg Physics example and + spelling of Heisenberg's name. Thanks to Hermann Peifer. 2016-02-14 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -157,6 +319,14 @@ Use @sup for superscripts where possible. * texinfo.tex: Updated. +2016-02-05 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawk.texi: Document that optimization in now the default, + there are new -s/--no-optimize options and that + pretty-printing and profiling disable optimization. + * gawk.1: Ditto. + * awkcard.in: Ditto. + 2016-02-03 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> * gawktexi.in (Command-Line Options): Change wording of -M description @@ -189,17 +359,39 @@ * ChangeLog: Remove spurious whitespace. + Unrelated: + + * gawk.1: Restore text on PROCINFO["RETRY"] and fix up the + formatting while we're at it. Thanks to Andrew Schorr for + pointing out the problem. + 2016-01-13 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in (Array Sorting Functions): Add an example of using a function name with asort(). Response to bug report Stephane Goujet <stephane.goujet@wanadoo.fr>. +2016-01-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Finish documenting that --pretty-print + doesn't run the program. Thanks to Antonio + Giovanni Colombo for the report and patch. + +2016-01-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document that GNU/Linux on Alpha is no + longer supported. + 2015-12-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Fix some @c endfile. Thanks to Antonio Giovanni Colombo for the report and patch. +2015-12-20 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Add PROCINFO["NONFATAL"] to the list for PROCINFO. + * gawk.1: Ditto. + 2015-12-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawk.1: Update description of PROCINFO, and sort it properly. @@ -213,6 +405,11 @@ 2015-11-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Minor edits. + * gawk.1: Revise \x to maximum of two digits. + +2015-11-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * Makefile.am (pdf-local): Remove igawk.1.pdf. Ooops. 2015-10-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -225,6 +422,10 @@ * gawk.1: Put commas outside quoting in regexps to avoid confusion. Thanks to Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>. +2015-10-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * awkcard.in: Fix tbl complaint. + 2015-10-07 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * texinfo.tex: Updated to a working version. @@ -256,11 +457,26 @@ * gawktexi.in: Typo fixes in Appendix A. Thanks to Antonio Colombo. +2015-07-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Small typo fix; thanks to Antonio Colombo + for noticing. + 2015-07-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Update info on Quiktrim awk; thanks to Antonio Colombo for the pointer. +2015-06-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Limitations): Document that sometimes the + debugger can affect the program being run. + Thanks to Hermann Peifer for the test case. + +2015-06-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Update description of values returned by typeof. + 2015-06-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawkinet.info: Fix an old arnold@gnu.org. @@ -286,6 +502,13 @@ * gawktexi.in: Add another pithy quote from Chet Ramey. Currently commented out. +2015-05-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Revised description of default field parsing + for POSIX. Newline is now a separator also. Thanks to + Michael Klement <michael.klement@usa.net> for pointing this out. + * gawk.1: Updated too. + 2015-05-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in (Bitwise Functions): Update results of testbits.awk. @@ -310,15 +533,33 @@ * gawktexi.in: Fix description of nextfile within a function. Sigh. +2015-05-15 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Undocumented): Describe the new PROCINFO["argv"] array. + 2015-05-14 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in (Bugs): Add that email should be in plain text and not in HTML. Sigh. +2015-05-11 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Add doc on conversions for strongly typed + regexp variables. + +2015-05-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Add initial documentation for strongly typed + regexps and for `typeof'. + 2015-04-29 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * 4.1.2: Release tar ball made. +2015-04-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Undocumented): More info added. + 2015-04-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Update feature history section. @@ -340,6 +581,11 @@ * gawktexi.in: Fix a figure caption. Thanks to Antonio Colombo for pointing this out. + * gawktexi.in: Additional typo fix, also thanks to Antonio. + +2015-04-02 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Name change: div() --> intdiv(). 2015-03-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -347,10 +593,17 @@ indirectly. Small additional fix relating to rand(). Thanks to Antonio Colombo. +2015-03-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Minor edits. + 2015-03-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Minor fixes from Antonio Colombo and new exercise in chapter 16. + * gawk.1: Minor edits. + * gawktexi.in: Edits in material on errno and retryable and get_file + API. 2015-03-17 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> @@ -364,6 +617,12 @@ Thanks to Nicholas Mills <nlmills@clemson.edu> for pointing out the issue. +2015-03-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Briefly describe that nonfatal I/O overrides + GAWK_SOCK_RETRIES, in the env var part and in the nonfatal I/O + part. + 2015-03-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Change quotes to @dfn for pseudorandom. @@ -420,6 +679,7 @@ 2015-02-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes. + Make non-fatal i/o use "NONFATAL". 2015-02-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -428,6 +688,7 @@ 2015-02-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes. + * gawktexi.in: Update various version-related bits of info. 2015-02-02 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -457,7 +718,7 @@ 2015-01-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> - * gawktexi.in: Fix a bad URL. + * gawktexi.in: Fix a bad URL. And another one. More O'Reilly fixes. 2015-01-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -479,12 +740,40 @@ * gawkinet.texi: Fix capitalization in document title. * gawktexi.in: Here we go again: Starting on more O'Reilly fixes. +2014-12-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Add info that nonfatal I/O works with stdout and + stderr. Revise version info and what was added when. + +2015-01-05 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Improve get_file documentation. + +2015-01-05 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Replace "Retrying I/O" with "Retrying Input", since this + feature pertains to input, not output. + +2015-01-04 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document the get_file API function. + +2015-01-04 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawk.1: Document new features PROCINFO["errno"] and + PROCINFO["input", "RETRY"], and new getline return value of -2. + * gawktexi.in: Ditto. + 2014-12-26 Antonio Giovanni Colombo <azc100@gmail.com> * gawktexi.in (Glossary): Really sort the items. 2014-12-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + * gawktexi.in: Start documenting nonfatal output. + +2014-12-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + * gawktexi.in: Add one more paragraph to new foreword. * gawktexi.in: Fix exponentiation in TeX mode. Thanks to Marco Curreli by way of Antonio Giovanni Colombo. @@ -516,6 +805,11 @@ * gawktexi.in: Various minor fixes and updates. +2014-11-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Update that TZ env. var can influnce mktime + in running program. Thanks to Hermann Peifer. + 2014-11-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Update that RFC 4180 documents CSV data. @@ -529,6 +823,11 @@ * gawktexi.in: Comment out that I need an owner for awk.info. I may have found one or two people. +2014-10-29 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document new extras directory containing shell startup + files to manipulate AWKPATH and AWKLIBPATH environment variables. + 2014-10-28 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawk.1: Clarification that debugger reads stdin. @@ -542,6 +841,7 @@ 2014-10-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Minor typo fixes. + Fix discussion of \x, per note from Antonio Colombo. 2014-10-17 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -583,10 +883,25 @@ * gawktexi.in: Pretty much done! + Unrelated: + + * gawktexi.in: Fix braino in awk version of div function. + Thanks to Katie Wasserman for the catch. + 2014-10-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: More fixes after reading through the MS. + Unrelated: + + * gawktexi.in: Add Katie Wasserman's program to compute + the digits of PI. + + Unrelated: + + * gawktexi.in: Document the differences between profiling + and pretty printing. + 2014-09-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: More fixes after reading through the MS. @@ -682,6 +997,10 @@ exercises. Remove use of LC_ALL in an example; doesn't seem to be needed anymore. + Unrelated: + + * gawktexi.in: Document that MirBSD is no longer supported. + 2014-08-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Exercises are excluded from print edition. @@ -715,6 +1034,10 @@ * gawktexi.in: Starting on reviewer comments. Update acknowledgements. +2014-08-12 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Cause div.awk to get into the example files. + 2014-08-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Misc minor additions. @@ -729,6 +1052,18 @@ * gawktexi.in: Fix doc for API get_record - errcode needs to be greater than zero. +2014-07-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Numeric Functions): For `div()', clarify + truncation is towards zero. Thanks to Michal Jaegermann + for pointing out the need to clarify this. + +2014-07-10 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in (Numeric Functions): Document new `div()' function. + (Arbitrary Precision Integers): Document raison d'etre for div(). + * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document `div()'. + 2014-07-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in (Bracket Expressions): Add a note about how to @@ -739,6 +1074,11 @@ * gawktexi.in: Update permissions on copyright page per latest maintain.texi. Add GPL to print version of book. +2014-06-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawktexi.in: Document that --pretty-print no longer runs the + program. Remove mention of GAWK_NO_PP_RUN env var. + 2014-06-22 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: Typo fixes and minor corrections. @@ -1035,7 +1375,7 @@ 2013-12-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * gawktexi.in: More minor additions / fixes. - (Bugs): Add John Malmberg for VMS. + (Bugs): Add John Malmberg for VMS. Other minor edits. 2013-12-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> @@ -1109,6 +1449,11 @@ * gawktexi.in (FN, FFN, DF,DDF, PVERSION, CTL): Remove macros. They have no alternate versions and are just in the way. +2013-08-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * gawk.1: Document that ENVIRON updates affect the environment. + * gawktexi.in: Ditto. + 2013-06-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * texinfo.tex: Update from Karl, fixes a formating problem. |