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@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ Changes from 4.2.x to 5.0.0
4. PROCINFO["platform"] yields a string indicating the platform for
which gawk was compiled.
-5. Comment handling in the pretty-printer has been reworked almost completely
+5. Writing to elements of SYMTAB that are not variable names now
+ causes a fatal error.
+
+6. Comment handling in the pretty-printer has been reworked almost completely
from scratch. As a result, comments in many corner cases that were
previously lost are now included in the formatted output.