[Linux-Biella] Fw: Gawk 3.1.3 now available

[Andrea Ferraris]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aharon Robbins" <arnold@skeeve.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 6:50 AM
Subject: Gawk 3.1.3 now available


> Greetings all.
>
> Patch #3 to GNU Awk (gawk) 3.1 is now available. Gawk is the GNU project's
> version of the AWK programming language.
>
> The following files may be retrieved from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 1239     101       2078246 Jul 09 01:47 gawk-3.1.3.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 1239     101       1634022 Jul 09 01:45 gawk-3.1.3.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r--    1 1239     101        991725 Jul 09 01:43
gawk-3.1.3-ps.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 1239     101       1152257 Jul 09 01:42
gawk-3.1.3-doc.tar.gz
>
> This is a bug fix release.  The relevant part of the NEWS file is
> reproduced below.
>
> A .bz2 file is available for the full distribution to save download time.
>
> The -doc.tar.gz file contains the TeX dvi and ``dribble'' files, while
> the -doc.ps.tar.gz file contains PostScript versions of the manuals,
> the man page, and the reference card.
>
> The .diff file is a SHELL SCRIPT that should be executed with `sh'. It
> sets things up correctly both before and after applying the embedded
> context diff.  Note also that if you use the .diff file to upgrade,
> you need to have the version of makeinfo from Texinfo 4.5 in order to
> rebuild the *.info files.
>
> Bug reports should be sent to bug-gawk@gnu.org.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Arnold Robbins
> arnold@skeeve.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Changes from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3
> ---------------------------
>
> 1. Gawk now follows POSIX in handling of local numeric formats for
>    input, output and number/string conversions.
>
> 2. Multibyte detection improved.  See README_d/README.multibyte for more
>    info about multibyte locales.
>
> 3. Handling of `close' made more POSIX-compliant for POSIXLY_CORRECT,
>    see the documentation.
>
> 4. The record reading code was redone, again.  This time it's much
>    better. Really!
>
> 5. For RS = "\n" and RS = "", gawk now only sets RT when it has changed.
>    This provides considerable performance improvement.
>
> 6. `match' now sets all the subscripts in the third argument array
>    correctly, even if not all subexpressions matched.
>
> 7. Updated to Automake 1.7.5.  configure.in renamed configure.ac.
>
> 8. C-style switch statements are available, but must be enabled at
>    compile time via `configure --enable-switch'.  For 3.2 they'll be
>    enabled by default. Thanks to Michael Benzinger for the initial
>    code.
>
> 9. %c now always prints no more than one character, whatever
>    precision is provided.
>
> 10. strtonum(<number>) now works again.
>
> 11. Gawk is now much better about scalar/array typing of global
>     uninitiailzed variables passed as parameters. Once the parameter
>     is then used one way or the other, the global var's type is
>     adjusted accordingly.  Thanks to Stepan Kasal for the original
>     (considerable) changes.
>
> 12. Dynamic function loading under Windows32 should now be possible. See
>     README_d/README.pcdynamic. Thanks to Patrick T.J. McPhee for the
changes.
>
> 13. Updated to gettext 0.12.1.
>
> 14. Gawk now follows historical practice and POSIX for the return
>     value of `rand': It's now  0 <= N < 1.
>
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