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@@ -5,50 +5,47 @@ 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 +Changes from 4.2.1 to 5.0.0 --------------------------- -1. The undocumented configure option and code that enabled the use of +1. Support for the POSIX standard %a and %A printf formats has been added. + +2. The test infrastructure has been greatly improved, simplifying the + contents of test/Makefile.am and making it possible to generate + pc/Makefile.tst from test/Makefile.in. + +3. The regex routines have been replaced with those from GNULIB, allowing + me to stop carrying forward decades of changes against the original + ones from GLIBC. + +4. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.2.1, Automake 1.16.1, Gettext 0.19.8.1. + +5. 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. +6. The `--with-whiny-user-strftime' configuration option is now gone. -3. The code now makes some stronger assumptions about a C99 environment. +7. The code now makes some stronger assumptions about a C99 environment. -4. PROCINFO["platform"] yields a string indicating the platform for +8. 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 +9. 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 +10. 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: +11. Namespaces have been implemented! See the manual. One consequence of this + is that files 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 ---------------------------- - -1. Support for the POSIX standard %a and %A printf formats has been added. - -2. The test infrastructure has been greatly improved, simplifying the - contents of test/Makefile.am and making it possible to generate - pc/Makefile.tst from test/Makefile.in. - -3. The regex routines have been replaced with those from GNULIB, allowing - me to stop carrying forward decades of changes against the original - ones from GLIBC. - -4. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.2.1, Automake 1.16.1, Gettext 0.19.8.1. - XX. A number of bugs, some of them quite significant, have been fixed. - See the ChangeLog for details. + See the ChangeLog for details. Changes from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 --------------------------- |