From df616f664859ed9e9f71e66641e84f9f12d8d7b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Arnold D. Robbins" Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 21:33:56 +0200 Subject: Save/restore freelists to/from the root pointer struct. --- NEWS | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6d52e17d..47527e56 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +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 --------------------------- @@ -21,7 +34,7 @@ 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. -- cgit v1.2.1