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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2022-12-04 21:36:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2022-12-04 21:36:16 +0200 |
| commit | 5bd265e1921e2cf732f1c191fef2434d4a33970d (patch) | |
| tree | 3c03af8367dbd44e23184effe908e1773efaa962 /NEWS | |
| parent | 69502733ae7a66878810ae1e24b5ced9a5b9698c (diff) | |
| parent | df616f664859ed9e9f71e66641e84f9f12d8d7b3 (diff) | |
| download | gawk-5bd265e1921e2cf732f1c191fef2434d4a33970d.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'gawk-5.2-stable'
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. -Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.3.0 +Changes from 5.2.2 to 5.3.0 --------------------------- 1. Infrastructure changes: Removed the use of libsigsegv. The @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.3.0 3. PROCINFO gained two new elements: PROCINFO["mb_cur_max"] and PROCINFO["utf8"]. See the manual for details. +Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 +--------------------------- + +1. Gawk no longer builds an x86_64 executable on M1 macOS systems. + This means that PMA is unavailable on those systems. + +2. 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. + +3. Gawk no longer "leaks" its free list of NODEs in the heap file, resulting + in much more efficient usage of persistent storage. + Changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 --------------------------- @@ -36,7 +49,7 @@ Changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 5. The rwarray extension's readall() function has had some bugs fixed. 6. The PMA allocator is now supported on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux on S/390x. - Is is now supported also on both Intel and M1 macOS systems. + It is now supported also on both Intel and M1 macOS systems. 7. There have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. |