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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ - Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, + Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright @@ -9,7 +10,8 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 1. If not in POSIX mode, changes to ENVIRON are reflected into gawk's environment, affecting any programs run by system() - or for piped redirections. + or for piped redirections. This can also affect built-in routines, such + as mktime(), which is typically influenced by the TZ environment variable. 2. The series of numbers returned by rand() should now be "more random" than previously. Gawk's rand() remains repeatable; you will @@ -21,7 +23,7 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 4. The igawk script and igawk.1 man page are no longer installed by `make install'. They have been obsolete since gawk 4.0.0. -5. Gawk now has a `div()' function to perform integer division; this is +5. Gawk now has a `intdiv()' function to perform integer division; this is primarily useful for the -M option to avoid MPFR division when all values involved are integers. @@ -37,6 +39,18 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 9. Pretty printing now preserves comments and places them into the pretty-printed file. +10. `make install' now installs shell startup files + $sysconfdir/profile.d/gawk.{csh,sh} containing shell functions to + manipulate the AWKPATH and AWKLIBPATH environment variables. On a Fedora + system, these files belong in /etc/profile.d, but the appropriate location + may be different on other platforms. + +11. Gawk now supports retryable I/O via PROCINFO[input-file, "RETRY"]; see + the manual. + +12. The API minor version has been increased to two; the get_file() + API provides access to open redirections. Also see the manual. + Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 --------------------------- @@ -46,6 +60,7 @@ Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 - Chapter 15 on MPFR reworked. - Summary sections added to all chapters. - Exercises added in several chapters. + - Heavily proof-read and copyedited. 2. The debugger's "restart" command now works again. @@ -53,19 +68,39 @@ Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 4. A number of bugs have been fixed in the MPFR code. -5. Indirect function calls now work for both built-in and - extension functions. +5. Indirect function calls now work for both built-in and extension functions. + +6. Built-in functions are now included in FUNCTAB. -6. In non-English locales, it was accidentally possible to use "letters" - beside those of the English alphabet in identifiers. This has - been fixed. (isalpha and isalnum are NOT our friends.) +7. POSIX and historical practice require the exclusive use of the English + alphabet in identifiers. In non-English locales, it was accidentally + possible to use "letters" beside those of the English alphabet. This + has been fixed. (isalpha and isalnum are NOT our friends.) If you feel that you must have this misfeature, use `configure --help' to see what option to use when configuring gawk to reenable it. -7. The "where" command has been added to the debugger as an alias +8. The "where" command has been added to the debugger as an alias for "backtrace". This will make life easier for long-time GDB users. +9. Gawk no longer explicitly checks the current directory after doing + a path search of AWKPATH. The default value continues to have "." at + the front, so most people should not be affected. If you have your own + AWKPATH setting, be sure to put "." in it somewhere. The documentation + has been updated and clarified. + +10. Infrastructure upgrades: Automake 1.15, Gettext 0.19.4, Libtool 2.4.6, + Bison 3.0.4. + +11. If a user-defined function has a parameter with the same name as another + user-defined function, it is no longer possible to call the second + function from inside the first. + +12. POSIX requires that the names of function parameters not be the + same as any of the special built-in variables and also not conflict + with the names of any functions. Gawk has checked for the former + since 3.1.7. With --posix, it now also checks for the latter. + XX. A number of bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog. Changes from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 |