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The code for HPUX shl_load() still needs testing and debugging. + A dld interface is also missing. Any volunteers? + +* The files from the GNU m4 web-site is now in examples/WWW as a more + complete example of what GNU m4 can do. + +Version beta 1.4l - November 1998, by Rene' Seindal + +* GNU m4 now has an escape syntax category. If a character is marked as + an escape, words are only recognised as macros if preceded by an escape + character. It is a bit like -P, but dynamic: it can be turned on and + off. The GNU m4 web-site on http://www.seindal.dk/rene/gnu/ is + maintained with this feature - the m4 source is available on the site. + +* The module interface is improved, thanks to "Brian J. Fox" + <bfox@datawave.net>, who have contributed some code from Meta-HTML. The + modules now build automatically and installs properly, by default in + /usr/local/libexec/m4. There is a preliminary, untested support for + shl_load(). + +* There is now a __m4_version__ macro that expands to the current version + number. + +Version beta 1.4k - November 1998, by Erick Branderhorst and Rene' Seindal + +* GNU m4 now uses gettext to support internationalization. + +* GNU m4 now uses automake to control Makefile.in generation. This + should make it more consistent with the GNU standards. + +* GNU m4 will use the gmp library for multiple precision integral and + rational arithmetic in `eval' if configured with `--with-gmp'. If + configured without `--with-gmp' or if gmp is not available, and the type + `long long int' is, GNU m4 will use that for `eval' arithmetic. + +* GNU m4 now parses the input according to a syntax table, that can be + modified through the new builtin `changesyntax'. It is a generalisation + of the existing builtins `changecom' and `changequote'. The changes are + completely backwards compatible (except for the existence of + `changesyntax'). + +* Sync lines can be turned on and off with the `syncoutput' builtin. The + builtin `syncoutput' is a GNU extension. + +* New experimental feature: dynamically loadable modules. New builtin + `loadmodules' loads shared libraries, that can define new builtin + macros, ie, new macros can be written in C. Depends on the dlopen() + interface, and is currently only tested on Linux. Enabled at configure + time with `--with-modules'. Documentation is in src/module.c and + module/README. + +* Implement a GNU message catalog for French (Franc,ois Pinard). + +* Filenames found through path searches are now correctly reflected in + error and debug messages and through the `__file__' macro. + +Bugs fixed + +* All 8-bit characters can now be used for quotes. + + +Version 1.4 - October 1994, by Franc,ois Pinard + +(No user visible changes) + + +Version 1.3 - September 1994, by Franc,ois Pinard + +* Diversions are created as needed. Option `-N' is still accepted, but +otherwise ignored. Users should use only negative diversion numbers, +instead of high positive numbers, for diverting to nowhere. + +* Diversions should also work faster. No temporary files will be needed +at all if all diversions taken altogether do not use more than 512K. + +* Frozen state files may be produced with the `--freeze-state' (-F) +option and later brought back through the `--reload-state' (-R) option. + + +Version 1.2 - July 1994, by Franc,ois Pinard + +* In patsubst(STRING, REGEXP, REPLACEMENT), \& in REPLACEMENT has been +changed to represent this part of STRING matched by the whole REGEXP, +instead of the whole STRING as before. \0 does the same, but emits a +diagnostic saying it will disappear in some subsequent release. + +* eval(EXPR) emits a diagnostic if EXPR has suffixed crumb. The same for +other numeric conversions in incr(), decr(), divert(), etc. + +* `--fatal-warnings' (-E) stops execution at first warning. + +* `--nesting-limit=LEVEL' (-L LEVEL) sets a limit to macro nesting. +It is initially fixed at 250. + +* `--word-regexp=REGEXP' (-W REGEXP) modifies macro name syntax, like +does the new `changeword(REGEXP)' macro. This feature is experimental, +tell me your opinions about it. You do need --enable-changeword at +configure time to get these things. Do *not* depend on them yet. + +* Trace output format is scannable by GNU Emacs' next-error function. + +* Stack overflow is detected and diagnosed on some capable systems. + +* Various bugs have been corrected, m4 should be more portable. See the +ChangeLog for details. + + +Version 1.1 - November 1993, by Franc,ois Pinard + +Changes which might affect existing GNU m4 scripts: + +* Option `-V' has been removed, use `--version' instead. `--version' +writes on standard output instead of standard error, and inhibits any +script execution. + +* `--no-gnu-extensions' has been renamed `--traditional'. + +* In `eval', `^' used to indicate exponentiation, use `**' instead. + +* The automatic undiversion which takes place at end of all input is +forced into the main output stream. + +Changes which are unlikely to affect existing scripts: + +* `--help' prints an usage summary on standard output. Script execution +is then inhibited. + +* `--prefix-builtins' (-P) prefixes all builtin macros by `m4_'. + +* Most builtin macros for which arguments are mandatory, called without +any arguments, are no more recognized as builtin macros: they are +consequently copied verbatim to the output stream. + +* `define' and `pushdef' are usable with only one argument, they give +this argument an empty definition. + +* `eval' new operators for binary representation handling: `^' for +exclusive-or, `~' for the bitwise negation, `<<' and `>>' for shifts. + +* `eval' recognizes the notation 0bDIGITS for binary numbers and the +notation 0rRADIX:DIGITS for numbers in any radix from 1 to 36. + +Version 1.0.3 - December 1992, by Franc,ois Pinard + +Changes for the user: + +* `dnl' outputs a diagnostic if immediately followed by `('. Usually, +`dnl' is followed by newline or whitespace. + +* `ifelse' accepts without complaining the common idiom of having only +one argument. This is useful for introducing long comments. + +* `eval' always expresses values as signed, whatever the radix. + +* M4OPTS environment variable is no longer obeyed. + +* `--no-warnings' option is renamed `--silent'. + +* Debug lines use a new format more compatible with GNU standards. + +* Various bugs have been corrected. See the ChangeLog for details. + +Changes for the installer: + +* GNU m4 now uses an Autoconf-generated configure script, and should be +more easily portable in many ways. (Cray is not supported yet). + +* `make check' has been made more portable, expect no errors. + +Changes for the programmer: + +* Sources have been fully reindented to comply with GNU standards, and +cleaned up in many ways. + +* Sources have been protoized. Non-ANSI compilers are automatically +detected, then sources are unprotoized on the fly before compilation. + +* GNU m4 uses newer versions of obstack, regex, getopt, etc. + +Version 1.0 - October 1991, by Rene' Seindal + +* Uses GNU configure, taken from the gdb distribution. + +* Uses GNU getopt(), with long option names. + +* The -Q/+quiet option is added, which suppresses warnings about missing +or superflous arguments to built-in macros. + +* Added default options via the M4OPTS environment variable. + +* Several minor bugs have been fixed. + +Version 0.99 - July 1991, by Rene' Seindal + +* The builtins `incr' and `decr' are now implemented without use of +`eval'. + +* The builtin `indir' is added, to allow for indirect macro calls +(allows use of "illegal" macro names). + +* The debugging and tracing facilities has been enhanced considerably. +See the manual for details. + +* The -tMACRO option is added, marks MACRO for tracing as soon as it +is defined. + +* Builtins are traced after renaming iff they were before. + +* Named files can now be undiverted. + +* The -Nnum option can be used to increase the number of divertions +available. + +* Calling changecom without arguments now disables all comment handling. + +* A bug in `dnl' is fixed. + +* A bug in the multi-character quoting code is fixed. + +* Several typos in the manual has been corrected. More probably persist. + +Version 0.75 - November 1990, by Rene' Seindal + +* Implemented search path for include files (-I option and M4PATH +environment variable). + +* Implemented builtin `format' for printf-like formatting. + +* Implemented builtin `regexp' for searching for regular expressions. + +* Implemented builtin `patsubst' for substitution with regular +expressions. + +* Implemented builtin `esyscmd', which expands to a shell commands output. + +* Implemented `__file__' and `__line__' for use in error messages. + +* Implemented character ranges in `translit'. + +* Implemented control over debugging output. + +* Implemented multi-character quotes. + +* Implemented multi-character comment delimiters. + +* Changed predefined macro `gnu' to `__gnu__'. + +* Changed predefined macro `unix' to `__unix__', when the -G option is +not used. With -G, `unix' is still defined. + +* Added program name to error messages. + +* Fixed two missing null bytes bugs. + +Version 0.50 - January 1990, by Rene' Seindal + +* Initial beta release. + +Local Variables: +fill-column: 75 +End: + +</PRE> + + +</TD> + +</TR> + +</TABLE> + +</BODY> + + +</HTML> + + |