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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Fri Nov 19 11:59:56 IST 2010 +Wed Dec 1 21:51:31 IST 2010 ============================ This file documents several things related to the 2008 POSIX standard that I noted after reviewing it. @@ -26,9 +26,16 @@ that I noted after reviewing it. More discussion is provided in the node `POSIX Floating Point Problems' in gawk.texi. -3. String comparison with <, <= etc is supposed to take the local collating - sequence into account. Gawk currently doesn't. This is exacerbated - by the fact that the standard routines all want zero-terminated - strings to work on. +3. String comparison with <, <= etc is supposed to take the locale's collating + sequence into account. By default gawk doesn't do this. Rather, gawk + will do this only if --posix is in effect. - THIS SHOULD BE WORKED ON. +The following things aren't described by POSIX but ought to be: + +1. The value of $0 in an END rule + +2. The return value of a function that either does return with no value + or that falls off the end of the function body. + +3. What happens with substr() if start is <= 0, or greater than the length + of the string, or if length is <= 0. |