diff options
| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2022-12-22 07:31:55 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2022-12-22 07:31:55 +0200 |
| commit | 2e171b27e73d7b1fea3e3122d57e8feb7fd274d8 (patch) | |
| tree | d7e781673c2efd07f3941aed7aa79e49064bbefb /NEWS | |
| parent | 0f23965e6ad5f3ad5c20fa9d8dd7a62909789204 (diff) | |
| download | gawk-2e171b27e73d7b1fea3e3122d57e8feb7fd274d8.tar.gz | |
Move to Texinfo 7.0.1, add LaTeX support.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -7,19 +7,26 @@ Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 --------------------------- -1. Gawk no longer builds an x86_64 executable on M1 macOS systems. +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. -2. Gawk will now diagnose if a heap file was created with a different +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. -3. Gawk no longer "leaks" its free list of NODEs in the heap file, resulting +4. Gawk no longer "leaks" its free list of NODEs in the heap file, resulting in much more efficient usage of persistent storage. -4. PROCINFO["pma"] exists if the PMA allocator is compiled into gawk. +5. PROCINFO["pma"] exists if the PMA allocator is compiled into gawk. Its value is the PMA version. +6. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes. + See the ChangeLog for details. + Changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 --------------------------- |