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@@ -1,3 +1,53 @@ +Changes from 2.15.3 to 2.15.4 +----------------------------- + +Lots of lint fixes, and do_sprintf made mostly ANSI C compatible. + +Man page updated and edited. + +Copyrights updated. + +Arrays now grow dynamically, initially scaling up by an order of magnitude + and then doubling, up to ~ 64K. This should keep gawk's performance + graceful under heavy load. + +New `delete array' feature added. Only documented in the man page. + +Switched to dfa and regex suites from grep-2.0. These offer the ability to + move to POSIX regexps in the next release. + +Disabled GNU regex ops. + +Research awk -m option now recognized. It does nothing in gawk, since gawk + has no static limits. Only documented in the man page. + +New bionic (faster, better, stronger than before) hashing function. + +Bug fix in argument handling. `gawk -X' now notices there was no program. + Additional bug fixes to make --compat and --lint work again. + +Many changes for 16-bit cleanliness. + +Add explicit alloca(0) in io.c to recover space from C alloca. + +Fixed file descriptor leak in io.c. + +The --version option now follows the GNU coding standards and exits. + +Fixed several prototypes in protos.h. + +Several tests updated. On Solaris, warn that the out? tests will fail. + +Configuration files for SunOS with cc and Solaris 2.x added. + +Improved error messages in awk.y on gawk extensions if do_unix or do_compat. + +INSTALL file added. + +Fixed Atari Makefile and several VMS specific changes. + +Better conversion of numbers to strings on systems with broken sprintfs. + Changes from 2.15.2 to 2.15.3 ----------------------------- |