Log message:
gawk: update to 5.4.0.
Remove pkgsrc patch chunk changing 'ls -f' to 'ls -U', which
breaks the test on NetBSD.
Changes from 5.3.x to 5.4.0
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1. This release now uses Mike Haertel's MinRX regular expression matcher
as the default regexp engine. The old regex and dfa engines are still
available. More detail is available in the manual, and in the file
README_d/README.matchers. At the very least, read that file!
2. The manual, in the Bugs section, now makes it explicit that
(a) Ad hominem attacks on the lists will not be tolerated, and
(b) Discussion of proprietary software is strongly discouraged.
Repeated offenses are grounds for being banned from the lists.
3. There is now a new directive, @nsinclude, which works like @include
but does not reset the namespace for the included file to "awk". See
the manual for details.
4. When using lshift() or rshift() and attempting to shift by as many
or more bits than in a uintmax_t, gawk returns zero, instead of
whatever the C compiler and hardware might have done.
5. Gawk's use of persistent memory has changed somewhat:
A. Gawk now stores additional meta-information in the backing file.
This means that if you have a backing file with important data
in it, you should dump the data to a text file using the old version,
create a new backing file, and then read your data back in with
the new version, to a *brand new* backing file.
B. Gawk generates a warning if the version of gawk saved in the backing
file doesn't match that of the current running gawk.
C. It's now possible to use persistent memory and dynamic extensions
without problems. Gawk notices if an extension is being loaded from
a different path than what was first used and produces a fatal error
in this case.
6. The ordchr extension now supports multibyte / wide characters.
7. Per the 2024 POSIX standard, `length(array)' is no longer an extension,
but a regular feature. Thus --posix no longer rejects it and --lint
no longer warns about it.
8. The --traditional option has been rationalized to bring gawk into
sync with BWK awk. It no longer affects the return code from system(),
and it no longer prevents using a regexp for RS. Internally, the
code was cleaned up some as well.
9. Assertions in the C code are now enabled. To disable them, manually
edit the various Makefiles after running configure and before
running make. You will need to add -DNDEBUG to the CFLAGS variable.
10. PMA should now work on OpenBSD 7, FreeBSD 12 - 16, NetBSD 10 and 11,
and MidnightBSD 3 and 4.
11. Hexadecimal floating-point values may now be used in program source code,
with strtonum(), and with the -n/--non-decimal-data option. See the
manual for details.
12. A large number of small "replacement" files for standard functions
have been removed. These functions are now so standard that we
simply expect them to always be available. This simplifies the
distribution and the code maintenance.
13. Support for UDP in gawk's networking support is now obsolete.
It never worked very well. It will be removed in version 6.0.
Gawk issues a warning when attempting to use it.
14. Reading regular disk input files should be somewhat faster now,
since gawk no longer checks for timeouts on such files. On one
very large file, gawk '{ print }' saw approximately a 9% speedup.
15. The MinGW port of gawk for MS-Windows now supports UTF-8 encoded
non-ASCII text when the console window where gawk runs uses the
Windows codepage 65001 for output, even if the system-wide locale
specifies another codepage.
Similarly, the Cygwin port now also fully supports UTF-8.
16. There is a new option to configure: --enable-O3. This causes gcc to
use -O3 instead of -O2 when compiling gawk. This is not the default
because experience in some projects has shown (sadly) that -O3 can cause
bugs.
17. There is a new translation: Arabic. The .gmo files for the ca, da, fi,
ja, ka, ms, and vi translations are no longer built or included in
the distribution, as those translations have gone too long without
being updated. The .po files remain in the distribution, should
any volunteers wish to come forward to update them.
18. OpenVMS support has been updated. This release builds on
Alpha, Itanium and x86_64.
19. As usual, a number of small bugs have been fixed; see the ChangeLog
for the details.
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Log message:
lang/gawk: Update to 5.3.2
Changelog:
Changes from 5.3.1 to 5.3.2
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1. The pretty printer now produces fewer spurious newlines; at the
outermost level it now adds newlines between block comments and
the block or function that follows them. The extra final newline
is no longer produced.
2. OpenVMS 9.2-2 x86_64 is now supported.
3. On Linux and macos systems, the -no-pie linker flag is no longer required.
PMA now works on macos systems with Apple silicon, and not just
Intel systems.
4. Still more subtle issues related to uninitialized array elements have
been fixed.
5. Associative arrays should now not grow quite as fast as they used to.
6. The code and documentation are now consistent with each other with
respect to path searching and adding .awk to the filename. Both
are always done, even with --posix and --traditional.
7. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.3.0 to 5.3.1
---------------------------
1. More subtle issues related to uninitialized array elements have
been fixed.
2. A number of bugs in the debugger related to handling of arrays
have been fixed.
3. Some subtle bugs in the API have been fixed.
4. Use of MPFR is now possible again on 32-bit Power PC Mac systems.
5. Race conditions around broken pipes for system() and read and write
pipes should now be closed off.
6. Support for OSF/1 has been removed.
7. The never-documented --nostalgia option has been removed. It was
causing bug reports.
8. The implementation of printf/sprintf has been thoroughly reworked
in order to make the code more maintainable and to fix a goodly
number of corner cases.
9. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
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Log message:
gawk: update to 5.3.0.
Changes from 5.2.x to 5.3.0
---------------------------
1. Infrastructure changes: Removed the use of libsigsegv. The
value-add was never very much and it caused problems in some
environments.
2. In keeping with new features in BWK awk, gawk now has built-in
CSV file parsing. The behavior is intended to be identical to
that of the "One True AWK" when --csv is applied. See the
manual for details.
3. Also in keeping with BWK awk, gawk now supports a new \u escape
sequence. This should be followed by 1-8 hexadecimal digits. The
given code point is converted to its corresponding multibyte encoding
for storage inside gawk. See the manual.
4. If PROCINFO["BUFFERPIPE"] exists, then pipe output is buffered.
You can also use PROCINFO["command", "BUFFERPIPE"]. See \
the manual
for details.
5. Because of the additional `do_csv' variable in the API, which breaks
binary compatibility, the API major version was updated to 4 and
the minor version was reset to zero. The API remains source code
compatible; that is, existing extensions should only require recompilation.
6. The manual now requires Texinfo 7.1 and its texinfo.tex for formatting.
As a result, we no longer need to pre-process it, removing the need
for gawktexi.in and leaving just gawk.texi.
7. And of course, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.2.2 to 5.2.x
---------------------------
1. The readdir extension has been updated with additonal code and
features, see the manual or its man page. As a result, the
readdir_test.c extension has been removed.
2. We have a new translation: Ukranian.
3. Several subtle issues related to null regexp matches around
multibyte characters have been fixed.
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Log message:
gawk: update to 5.2.2.
Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2
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1. Infrastructure upgrades: makeinfo 7.0.1 must be used to format
the manual. As a result, the manual can also now be formatted
with LaTeX by running it through `makeinfo --latex'.
2. Gawk no longer builds an x86_64 executable on M1 macOS systems.
This means that PMA is unavailable on those systems.
3. Gawk will now diagnose if a heap file was created with a different
setting of -M/--bignum than in the current invocation and exit with
a fatal message if so.
4. Gawk no longer "leaks" its free list of NODEs in the heap file, \
resulting
in much more efficient usage of persistent storage.
5. PROCINFO["pma"] exists if the PMA allocator is compiled into gawk.
Its value is the PMA version.
6. The time extension is no longer deprecated. The strptime() function
from gawkextlib's timex extension has been added to it.
7. Better information is passed to input parsers for when they want to
decide whether or not to take control of a file. In particular, the
readdir extension is simplified for Windows because of this.
8. The various PNG files are now installed for Info and HTML. The
images files now have gawk_ prefixed names to avoid any conflicts
with other installed PNG file names.
9. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
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