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@@ -5,6 +5,33 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +Changes from 4.2.x to 5.0.0 +--------------------------- + +1. The undocumented configure option and code that enabled the use of + non-English "letters" in identifiers is now gone. + +2. The `--with-whiny-user-strftime' configuration option is now gone. + +3. The code now makes some stronger assumptions about a C99 environment. + +4. PROCINFO["platform"] yields a string indicating the platform for + which gawk was compiled. + +5. Writing to elements of SYMTAB that are not variable names now + causes a fatal error. + +6. Comment handling in the pretty-printer has been reworked almost completely + from scratch. As a result, comments in many corner cases that were + previously lost are now included in the formatted output. + +7. Namespaces have been implemented! See the manual. One consequence of this + is that file included with -i, read with -f, and command line program + segments must all be self-contained syntactic units. E.g., you can no + longer do something like this: + + gawk -e 'BEGIN {' -e 'print "hello" }' + Changes from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 --------------------------- |