upstream/1.1.5.1_cvsrelease/1.1.5.1_cvsreleng/1

1 files changed, 196 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/awk/NEWS b/gnu/usr.bin/awk/NEWS
index 6711373d6ea5..4df69e7d0bf8 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/awk/NEWS
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/awk/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,191 @@
+Changes from 2.15.4 to 2.15.5
+-----------------------------
+
+FUTURES file updated and re-arranged some with more rational schedule.
+
+Many prototypes handled better for ANSI C in protos.h.
+
+getopt.c updated somewhat.
+
+test/Makefile now removes junk directory, `bardargtest' renamed `badargs.'
+
+Bug fix in iop.c for RS = "". Eat trailing newlines off of record separator.
+
+Bug fix in Makefile.bsd44, use leading tab in actions.
+
+Fix in field.c:set_FS for FS == "\\" and IGNORECASE != 0.
+
+Config files updated or added:
+	cray60, DEC OSF/1 2.0, Utek, sgi405, next21, next30, atari/config.h,
+	sco.
+
+Fix in io.c for ENFILE as well as EMFILE, update decl of groupset to
+include OSF/1.
+
+Rationalized printing as integers if numbers are outside the range of a long.
+Changes to node.c:force_string and builtin.c.
+
+Made internal NF, NR, and FNR variables longs instead of ints.
+
+Add LIMITS_H_MISSING stuff to config.in and awk.h, and default defs for
+INT_MAX and LONG_MAX, if no limits.h file. Add a standard decl of
+the time() function for __STDC__. From ghazi@noc.rutgers.edu.
+
+Fix tree_eval in awk.h and r_tree_eval in eval.c to deal better with
+function parameters, particularly ones that are arrays.
+
+Fix eval.c to print out array names of arrays used in scalar contexts.
+
+Fix eval.c in interpret to zero out source and sourceline initially. This
+does a better job of providing source file and line number information.
+
+Fix to re_parse_field in field.c to not use isspace when RS = "", but rather
+to explicitly look for blank and tab.
+
+Fix to sc_parse_field in field.c to catch the case of the FS character at the
+end of a record.
+
+Lots of miscellanious bug fixes for memory leaks, courtesy Mark Moraes,
+also fixes for arrays.
+
+io.c fixed to warn about lack of explicit closes if --lint.
+
+Updated missing/strftime.c to match posted strftime 6.2.
+
+Bug fix in builtin.c, in case of non-match in sub_common.
+
+Updated constant used for division in builtin.c:do_rand for DEC Alpha
+and CRAY Y-MP.
+
+POSIXLY_CORRECT in the environment turns on --posix (fixed in main.c).
+
+Updated srandom prototype and calls in builtin.c.
+
+Fix awk.y to enforce posix semantics of unary +: result is numeric.
+
+Fix array.c to not rearrange the hash chain upon finding an index in
+the array.  This messed things up in cases like:
+	for (index1 in array) {
+		blah
+		if (index2 in array)	# blew away the for
+			stuff
+	}
+
+Fixed spelling errors in the man page.
+
+Fixes in awk.y so that
+	gawk '' /path/to/file
+will work without core dumping or finding parse errors.
+
+Fix main.c so that --lint will fuss about an empty program.
+Yet another fix for argument parsing in the case of unrecognized options.
+
+Bug fix in dfa.c to not attempt to free null pointers.
+
+Bug fix in builtin.c to only use DEFAULT_G_PRECISION for %g or %G.
+
+Bug fix in field.c to achieve call by value semantics for split.
+
+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 systems where sizeof(int) != sizeof(void *).
+
+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
+-----------------------------
+
+Increased HASHSIZE to a decent number, 127 was way too small.
+
+FILENAME is now the null string in a BEGIN rule.
+
+Argument processing fixed for invalid options and missing arguments.
+
+This version will build on VMS.  This included a fix to close all files
+   and pipes opened with redirections before closing stdout and stderr.
+
+More getpgrp() defines.
+
+Changes for BSD44:  <sys/param.h> in io.c and Makefile.bsd44.
+
+All directories in the distribution are now writable.
+
+Separated LDFLAGS and CFLAGS in Makefile.  CFLAGS can now be overridden by
+  user.
+
+Make dist now builds compressed archives ending in .gz and runs doschk.
+
+Amiga port.
+
+New getopt.c fixes Alpha OSF/1 problem.
+
+Make clean now removes possible test output.
+
+Improved algorithm for multiple adjacent string concatenations leads to
+  performance improvements.
+
+Fix nasty bug whereby command-line assignments, both with -v and at run time,
+   could create variables with syntactically illegal names.
+
+Fix obscure bug in printf with %0 flag and filling.
+
+Add a lint check for substr if provided length exceeds remaining characters
+   in string.
+
+Update atari support.
+
+PC support enhanced to include support for both DOS and OS/2. (Lots more
+   #ifdefs. Sigh.)
+
+Config files for Hitachi Unix and OSF/1, courtesy of Yoko Morishita
+   (morisita@sra.co.jp)
+
 Changes from 2.15.1 to 2.15.2
----------------------------
+-----------------------------
 
 Additions to the FUTURES file.
 
@@ -11,7 +197,6 @@ Clean up the distribution generation in Makefile.in:  the info files are
   now included, the distributed files are marked read-only and patched
   distributions are now unpacked in a directory named with the patch level.
 
-
 Changes from 2.15 to 2.15.1
 ---------------------------
 
@@ -161,7 +346,7 @@ Added code to do better diagnoses of weird or null file names.
 Allow continue outside of a loop, unless in strict posix mode.  Lint option
   will issue warning.
 
-New missing/strftime.c.  There has been one chage that affects gawk.  Posix
+New missing/strftime.c.  There has been one change that affects gawk.  Posix
   now defines a %V conversion so the vms conversion has been changed to %v.
   If this version is used with gawk -Wlint and they use %V in a call to
   strftime, they'll get a warning.
@@ -189,7 +374,7 @@ Fixed a couple of bugs for reference to $0 when $0 is "" -- particularly in
 Fixed premature freeing in construct "$0 = $0".
 
 Removed the call to wait_any() in gawk_popen(), since on at least some systems,
-  if gawk's input was from a pipe, the predecssor process in the pipe was a
+  if gawk's input was from a pipe, the predecessor process in the pipe was a
   child of gawk and this caused a deadlock.
 
 Regexp can (once again) match a newline, if given explicitly.
@@ -215,7 +400,7 @@ Fixed bug when NF is set by user -- fields_arr must be expanded if necessary
 
 Fixed several bugs in [g]sub() for no match found or the match is 0-length.
 
-Fixed bug where in gsub() a pattern anchorred at the beginning would still
+Fixed bug where in gsub() a pattern anchored at the beginning would still
   substitute throughout the string.
 
 make test does not assume the . is in PATH.
@@ -235,7 +420,7 @@ Fixed hanging of pipe redirection to getline
 Fixed coredump on access to $0 inside BEGIN block.
 
 Fixed treatment of RS = "".  It now parses the fields correctly and strips
-  leading whitspace from a record if FS is a space.
+  leading whitespace from a record if FS is a space.
 
 Fixed faking of /dev/stdin.
 
@@ -279,7 +464,7 @@ Update to config/bsd43.
 
 Added config/apollo, config/msc60, config/cray2-50, config/interactive2.2
 
-sgi33.cc added for compilation using cc ratther than gcc.
+sgi33.cc added for compilation using cc rather than gcc.
 
 Ultrix41 now propagates to config.h properly -- as part of a general
   mechanism in configure for kludges -- #define anything from a config file
@@ -600,7 +785,7 @@ Fixed bug in output flushing introduced a few patches back.  This caused
 Changes from 2.12.22 to 2.12.23
 -------------------------------
 
-Accidently left config/cray2-60 out of last patch.
+Accidentally left config/cray2-60 out of last patch.
 
 Added some missing dependencies to Makefile.
 
@@ -750,7 +935,7 @@ Changes from 2.12.14 to 2.12.15
 -------------------------------
 
 Changed config/* to a condensed form that can be used with mkconf to generate
-  a config.h from config.h-dist -- much easier to maintain.  Please chaeck
+  a config.h from config.h-dist -- much easier to maintain.  Please check
   carefully against what you had before for a particular system and report
   any problems.  vms.h remains separate since the stuff at the bottom
   didn't quite fit the mkconf model -- hopefully cleared up later.
@@ -1102,7 +1287,7 @@ Changes from 2.11beta to 2.11.1 (production)
 Went from "beta" to production status!!!
 
 Now flushes stdout before closing pipes or redirected files to
-synchonize output.
+synchronize output.
 
 MS-DOS changes added in.
 
@@ -1217,7 +1402,7 @@ Cleaned up and fixed close_redir().
 Fixed an obscure bug to do with redirection.  Intermingled ">" and ">>"
 redirects did not output in a predictable order.
 
-Improved handling of output bufferring:  now all print[f]s redirected to a tty
+Improved handling of output buffering:  now all print[f]s redirected to a tty
 or pipe are flushed immediately and non-redirected output to a tty is flushed
 before the next input record is read.