Fix comment in fw_parse_field and white space in gawkapi.h.

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d740b43a..60f3a734 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2017-04-09         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+	* field.c (fw_parse_field): Edit comment about resetting shift state.
+	* gawkapi.h (awk_fieldwidth_info_t): Make white space more uniform.
+
 2017-03-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
 
 	* field.c (parse_field_func_t): New typedef. Used as needed.
diff --git a/field.c b/field.c
index b5f28c17..38105745 100644
--- a/field.c
+++ b/field.c
@@ -771,10 +771,10 @@ fw_parse_field(long up_to,	/* parse only up to this field number */
 		return nf;
 	if (gawk_mb_cur_max > 1 && fw->use_chars) {
 		/*
-		 * Reset the shift state for each field, since there might
-		 * be who-knows-what kind of stuff in between fields,
-		 * and we assume each field starts with a valid (possibly
-		 * multibyte) character.
+		 * Reset the shift state. Arguably, the shift state should
+		 * be part of the file state and carried forward at all times,
+		 * but nobody has complained so far, so this may not matter
+		 * in practice.
 		 */
 		memset(&mbs, 0, sizeof(mbstate_t));
 		while (nf < up_to) {
diff --git a/gawkapi.h b/gawkapi.h
index a8d6279f..484ab27e 100644
--- a/gawkapi.h
+++ b/gawkapi.h
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ typedef struct {
 	size_t		nf;
 	struct awk_field_info {
 		size_t	skip;	/* amount to skip before field starts */
-		size_t len;	/* length of field */
+		size_t	len;	/* length of field */
 	} fields[1];		/* actual dimension should be nf */
 } awk_fieldwidth_info_t;