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author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-03-03 21:06:59 +0200 |
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committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-03-03 21:06:59 +0200 |
commit | c022d42b6162cadaced36c3bbf454e4e5dba8111 (patch) | |
tree | 898fcd215a726c372cc758ef3c23485032d95ed4 /NEWS | |
parent | d78adb29468012f54dd029e021d83eb668f19a7d (diff) | |
download | gawk-c022d42b6162cadaced36c3bbf454e4e5dba8111.tar.gz |
Document NONFATAL in NEWS. Ooops.
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -34,42 +34,46 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0 7. Gawk now processes a maximum of two hexadecimal digits in \x escape sequences inside strings. -8. MirBSD is no longer supported. +8. Setting PROCINFO["redirection", "NONFATAL"] to true makes I/O + errors for "redirection" not fatal, setting ERRNO. Setting + PROCINFO["NONFATAL"] makes all I/O nonfatal. -9. Pretty printing now preserves comments and places them into the - pretty-printed file. +9. MirBSD is no longer supported. -10. `make install' now installs shell startup files +10. Pretty printing now preserves comments and places them into the + pretty-printed file. + +11. `make install' now installs shell startup files $sysconfdir/profile.d/gawk.{csh,sh} containing shell functions to manipulate the AWKPATH and AWKLIBPATH environment variables. On a Fedora system, these files belong in /etc/profile.d, but the appropriate location may be different on other platforms. -11. Gawk now supports retryable I/O via PROCINFO[input-file, "RETRY"]; see +12. Gawk now supports retryable I/O via PROCINFO[input-file, "RETRY"]; see the manual. -12. The API minor version has been increased to 2; the get_file() +13. The API minor version has been increased to 2; the get_file() API provides access to open redirections. Also see the manual. -13. Revisions in the POSIX standard remove the special case for POSIX +14. Revisions in the POSIX standard remove the special case for POSIX mode when FS = " " where newline was not a field separator. The code and doc have been updated. -14. Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants. Such constants +15. Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants. Such constants look like @/.../. You can assign them to variables, pass them to functions, use them in ~, !~ and the case part of a switch statement. More details are provided in the manual. -15. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or +16. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or array element is an array, regexp, string or number. The isarray() function is deprecated in favor of typeof(). -16. As promised when 4.1 was released, the old extension mechanism, +17. As promised when 4.1 was released, the old extension mechanism, using the `extension' function, is now gone. -17. Support for GNU/Linux on Alpha systems has been removed. +18. Support for GNU/Linux on Alpha systems has been removed. -18. Optimizations are now enabled by default. Use the new -s/--no-optimize +19. Optimizations are now enabled by default. Use the new -s/--no-optimize option(s) to disable them. Pretty printing and profiling automatically disable optimizations so that the output program is the same as the original input program. |