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/****************************************************************
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Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997
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All Rights Reserved
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Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
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its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
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granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
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copies and that both that the copyright notice and this
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permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
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documentation, and that the name Lucent Technologies or any of
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its entities not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining
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to distribution of the software without specific, written prior
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permission.
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LUCENT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
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SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
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WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER
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IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
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ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF
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THIS SOFTWARE.
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****************************************************************/
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This file lists all bug fixes, changes, etc., made since the AWK book
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was sent to the printers in August, 1987.
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December 8, 2021:
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	The error handling in closefile and closeall was mangled. Long
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	standing warnings had been made fatal and some fatal errors went
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	undetected. Thanks to Miguel Pineiro Jr. <mpj@pineiro.cc>.
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Nov 03, 2021:
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        getline accesses uninitialized data after getrec()
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	returns 0 on EOF and leaves the contents of buf unchanged.
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	Thanks to Volodymyr Gubarkov, and Todd C Miller.
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Oct 12, 2021:
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	The fix for #83 changed the code to insert 2 chars, but the
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	call to adjbuf just above it only allows for 1 char. This can
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	cause a heap buffer overflow.
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July 27, 2021:
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	As per IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, -F "str" is now consistent with
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	-v FS="str" when str is null. Thanks to Warner Losh.
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July 24, 2021:
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	Fix readrec's definition of a record. This fixes an issue
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	with NetBSD's RS regular expression support that can cause
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	an infinite read loop. Thanks to Miguel Pineiro Jr.
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	Fix regular expression RS ^-anchoring. RS ^-anchoring needs to
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	know if it is reading the first record of a file. This change
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	restores a missing line that was overlooked when porting NetBSD's
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	RS regex functionality. Thanks to Miguel Pineiro Jr.
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	Fix size computation in replace_repeat() for special case
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	REPEAT_WITH_Q. Thanks to Todd C. Miller.
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February 15, 2021:
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	Small fix so that awk will compile again with g++. Thanks to
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	Arnold Robbins.
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January 06, 2021:
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	Fix a decision bug with trailing stuff in lib.c:is_valid_number
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	after recent changes. Thanks to Ozan Yigit.
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December 18, 2020:
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	Fix problems converting inf and NaN values in lib.c:is_valid_number.
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	Enhance number to string conversion to do the right thing for
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	NaN and inf values.  Things are now pretty much the same as in
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	gawk.  (Found a gawk bug while we're at it.) Added a torture
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	test for these values.  Thanks to Arnold Robbins.  Allows closing
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	of PR #101.
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December 15, 2020:
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	Merge PR #99, which gets the right header for strcasecmp.
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	Thanks to GitHub user michaelforney.
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December 8, 2020:
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	Merge PR #98: Disallow hex data. Allow only +nan, -nan,
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	+inf, -inf (case independent) to give NaN and infinity values.
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	Improve things so that string to double conversion is only
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	done once, yielding something of a speedup.  This obviate
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	PR #95. Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
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December 3, 2020:
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	Fix to argument parsing to avoid printing spurious newlines.
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	Thanks to Todd Miller. Merges PR #97.
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October 13, 2020:
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	Add casts before all the calls to malloc/calloc/realloc in order
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	to get it to compile with g++. Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
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August 16, 2020:
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	Additional fixes for DJGPP. Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for
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	the testing.
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August 7, 2020:
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	Merge PR #93, which adds casts to (void*) for debug prints
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	using the %p format specifier. Thanks to GitHub user YongHaoWu
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	("Chris") for the fixes.
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August 4, 2020:
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	In run.c, use non-restartable multibyte routines to attain
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	portability to DJGPP. Should fix Issue 92. Thanks to Albert Wik
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	for the report and to Todd Miller for the suggested fix.
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July 30, 2020:
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	Merge PRs 88-91 which fix small bugs. Thanks to Todd Miller and
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	Tim van der Molen for the fixes.
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	In order to make life easier, we move exclusively to bison
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	as the parser generator.
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July 2, 2020:
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	Merge PRs 85 and 86 which fix regressions. Thanks to
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	Tim van der Molen for the fixes.
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June 25, 2020:
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	Merge PRs 82 and 84. The latter fixes issue #83. Thanks to
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	Todd Miller and awkfan77.
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June 12, 2020:
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	Clear errno before calling errcheck to avoid any spurious errors
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	left over from previous calls that may have set it. Thanks to
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	Todd Miller for the fix, from PR #80.
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	Fix Issue #78 by allowing \r to follow floating point numbers in
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	lib.c:is_number. Thanks to GitHub user ajcarr for the report
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	and to Arnold Robbins for the fix.
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June 5, 2020:
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	In fldbld(), make sure that inputFS is set before trying to
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	use it. Thanks to  Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
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	for the report.
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May 5, 2020:
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	Fix checks for compilers that can handle noreturn. Thanks to
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	GitHub user enh-google for pointing it out. Closes Issue #79.
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April 16, 2020:
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	Handle old compilers that don't support C11 (for noreturn).
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	Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
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April 5, 2020:
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	Use <stdnoreturn.h> and noreturn instead of GCC attributes.
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	Thanks to GitHub user awkfan77. Closes PR #77.
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February 28, 2020:
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	More cleanups from Christos Zoulas: notably backslash continuation
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	inside strings removes the newline and a fix for RS = "^a".
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	Fix for address sanitizer-found problem. Thanks to GitHub user
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	enh-google.
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February 19, 2020:
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	More small cleanups from Christos Zoulas.
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February 18, 2020:
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	Additional cleanups from Christos Zoulas. It's no longer necessary
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	to use the -y flag to bison.
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February 6, 2020:
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	Additional small cleanups from Christos Zoulas. awk is now
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	a little more robust about reporting I/O errors upon exit.
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January 31, 2020:
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	Merge PR #70, which avoids use of variable length arrays. Thanks
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	to GitHub user michaelforney.  Fix issue #60 ({0} in interval
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	expressions doesn't work).  Also get all tests working again.
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	Thanks to Arnold Robbins.
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January 24, 2020:
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	A number of small cleanups from Christos Zoulas.  Add the close
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	on exec flag to files/pipes opened for redirection; courtesy of
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	Arnold Robbins.
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January 19, 2020:
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	If POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in the environment, then sub and gsub
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	use POSIX rules for multiple backslashes.  This fixes Issue #66,
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	while maintaining backwards compatibility.
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January 9, 2020:
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	Input/output errors on closing files are now fatal instead of
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	mere warnings. Thanks to Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>.
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January 5, 2020:
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	Fix a bug in the concatentation of two string constants into
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	one done in the grammar.  Fixes GitHub issue #61.  Thanks
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	to GitHub user awkfan77 for pointing out the direction for
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	the fix.  New test T.concat added to the test suite.
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	Fix a few memory leaks reported by valgrind, as well.
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December 27, 2019:
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	Fix a bug whereby a{0,3} could match four a's.  Thanks to
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	"Anonymous AWK fan" for the report.
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December 11, 2019:
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	Further printf-related fixes for 32 bit systems.
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	Thanks again to Christos Zoulas.
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December 8, 2019:
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	Fix the return value of sprintf("%d") on 32 bit systems.
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	Thanks to Jim Lowe for the report and to Christos Zoulas
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	for the fix.
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November 10, 2019:
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	Convert a number of Boolean integer variables into
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	actual bools. Convert compile_time variable into an
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	enum and simplify some of the related code.  Thanks
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	to Arnold Robbins.
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November 8, 2019:
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	Fix from Ori Bernstein to get UTF-8 characters instead of
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	bytes when FS = "".  This is currently the only bit of
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	the One True Awk that understands multibyte characters.
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	From Arnold Robbins, apply some cleanups in the test suite.
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October 25, 2019:
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	More fixes and cleanups from NetBSD, courtesy of Christos
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	Zoulas. Merges PRs 54 and 55.
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October 24, 2019:
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	Import second round of code cleanups from NetBSD. Much thanks
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	to Christos Zoulas (GitHub user zoulasc). Merges PR 53.
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	Add an optimization for string concatenation, also from
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	Christos.
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October 17, 2019:
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	Import code cleanups from NetBSD. Much thanks to Christos
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	Zoulas (GitHub user zoulasc). Merges PR 51.
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October 6, 2019:
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	Import code from NetBSD awk that implements RS as a regular
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	expression.
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September 10, 2019:
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	Fixes for various array / memory overruns found via gcc's
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	-fsanitize=unknown. Thanks to Alexander Richardson (GitHub
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	user arichardson). Merges PRs 47 and 48.
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July 28, 2019:
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	Import grammar optimization from NetBSD: Two string constants
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	concatenated together get turned into a single string.
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July 26, 2019:
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	Support POSIX-specified C-style escape sequences "\a" (alarm)
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	and "\v" (vertical tab) in command line arguments and regular
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	expressions, further to the support for them in strings added on
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	Apr 9, 1989. These now no longer match as literal "a" and "v"
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	characters (as they don't on other awk implementations).
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	Thanks to Martijn Dekker.
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July 17, 2019:
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	Pull in a number of code cleanups and minor fixes from
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	Warner Losh's bsd-ota branch.  The only user visible change
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	is the use of random(3) as the random number generator.
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	Thanks to Warner Losh for collecting all these fixes in
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	one easy place to get them from.
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July 16, 2019:
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	Fix field splitting to use FS value as of the time a record
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	was read or assigned to.  Thanks to GitHub user Cody Mello (melloc)
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	for the fix. (Merged from his branch, via PR #42.) Updated
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	testdir/T.split per said PR as well.
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June 24, 2019:
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	Extract awktest.tar into testdir directory. Add some very
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	simple mechanics to the makefile for running the tests and
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	for cleaning up. No changes to awk itself.
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June 17, 2019:
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	Disallow deleting SYMTAB and its elements, which creates
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	use-after-free bugs. Thanks to GitHub user Cody Mello (melloc)
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	for the fix. (Merged from PR #43.)
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June 5, 2019:
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	Allow unmatched right parenthesis in a regular expression to
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	be treated literally. Fixes Issue #40. Thanks to GitHub user
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	Warner Losh (bsdimp) for the report. Thanks to Arnold Robbins
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	for the fix.
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May 29,2019:
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	Fix check for command line arguments to no longer require that
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	first character after '=' not be another '='. Reverts change of
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	August 11, 1989. Thanks to GitHub user Jamie Landeg Jones for
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	pointing out the issue; from Issue #38.
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Apr 7, 2019:
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	Update awktest.tar(p.50) to use modern options to sort. Needed
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	for Android development. Thanks to GitHub user mohd-akram (Mohamed
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	Akram).  From Issue #33.
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Mar 12, 2019:
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	Added very simplistic support for cross-compiling in the
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	makefile.  We are NOT going to go in the direction of the
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	autotools, though.  Thanks to GitHub user nee-san for
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	the basic change. (Merged from PR #34.)
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Mar 5, 2019:
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	Added support for POSIX-standard interval expressions (a.k.a.
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	bounds, a.k.a. repetition expressions) in regular expressions,
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	backported (via NetBSD) from Apple awk-24 (20070501).
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	Thanks to Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org> for the port.
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	(Merged from PR #30.)
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Mar 3, 2019:
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	Merge PRs as follows:
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	#12: Avoid undefined behaviour when using ctype(3) functions in
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	     relex(). Thanks to GitHub user iamleot.
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	#31: Make getline handle numeric strings, and update FIXES. Thanks
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	     to GitHub user arnoldrobbins.
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	#32: maketab: support build systems with read-only source. Thanks
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	     to GitHub user enh.
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Jan 25, 2019:
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	Make getline handle numeric strings properly in all cases.
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	(Thanks, Arnold.)
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Jan 21, 2019:
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	Merged a number of small fixes from GitHub pull requests.
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	Thanks to GitHub users Arnold Robbins (arnoldrobbins),
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	Cody Mello (melloc) and Christoph Junghans (junghans).
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	PR numbers: 13-21, 23, 24, 27.
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Oct 25, 2018:
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	Added test in maketab.c to prevent generating a proctab entry
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	for YYSTYPE_IS_DEFINED.  It was harmless but some gcc settings
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	generated a warning message.  Thanks to Nan Xiao for report.
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Aug 27, 2018:
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	Disallow '$' in printf formats; arguments evaluated in order
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	and printed in order.
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	Added some casts to silence warnings on debugging printfs.
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	(Thanks, Arnold.)
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Aug 23, 2018:
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        A long list of fixes courtesy of Arnold Robbins,
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        to whom profound thanks.
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        1. ofs-rebuild: OFS value used to rebuild the record was incorrect.
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        Fixed August 19, 2014. Revised fix August 2018.
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        2. system-status: Instead of a floating-point division by 256, use
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        the wait(2) macros to create a reasonable exit status.
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        Fixed March 12, 2016.
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        3. space: Use provided xisblank() function instead of ispace() for
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        matching [[:blank:]].
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        4. a-format: Add POSIX standard %a and %A to supported formats. Check
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        at runtime that this format is available.
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        5. decr-NF: Decrementing NF did not change $0. This is a decades-old
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        bug. There are interactions with the old and new value of OFS as well.
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        Most of the fix came from the NetBSD awk.
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        6. string-conv: String conversions of scalars were sticky.  Once a
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        conversion to string happened, even with OFMT, that value was used until
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        a new numeric value was assigned, even if OFMT differed from CONVFMT,
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        and also if CONVFMT changed.
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        7. unary-plus: Unary plus on a string constant returned the string.
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        Instead, it should convert the value to numeric and give that value.
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	Also added Arnold's tests for these to awktest.tar as T.arnold.
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Aug 15, 2018:
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	fixed mangled awktest.tar (thanks, Arnold), posted all
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	current (very minor) fixes to github / onetrueawk
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Jun 7, 2018:
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	(yes, a long layoff)
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	Updated some broken tests (beebe.tar, T.lilly)
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	[thanks to Arnold Robbins]
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Mar 26, 2015:
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	buffer overflow in error reporting; thanks to tobias ulmer
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	and john-mark gurney for spotting it and the fix.
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Feb 4, 2013:
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	cleaned up a handful of tests that didn't seem to actually
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	test for correct behavior: T.latin1, T.gawk.
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Jan 5, 2013:
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	added ,NULL initializer to static Cells in run.c; not really
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	needed but cleaner.  Thanks to Michael Bombardieri.
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Dec 20, 2012:
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	fiddled makefile to get correct yacc and bison flags.  pick yacc
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	(linux) or bison (mac) as necessary.
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	added  __attribute__((__noreturn__)) to a couple of lines in
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	proto.h, to silence someone's enthusiastic checker.
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	fixed obscure call by value bug in split(a[1],a) reported on
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	9fans.  the management of temporary values is just a mess; i
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	took a shortcut by making an extra string copy.  thanks
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	to paul patience and arnold robbins for passing it on and for
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	proposed patches.
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	tiny fiddle in setfval to eliminate -0 results in T.expr, which
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	has irritated me for 20+ years.
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Aug 10, 2011:
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	another fix to avoid core dump with delete(ARGV); again, many thanks
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	to ruslan ermilov.
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Aug 7, 2011:
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	split(s, a, //) now behaves the same as split(s, a, "")
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Jun 12, 2011:
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	/pat/, \n /pat/ {...} is now legal, though bad style to use.
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	added checks to new -v code that permits -vnospace; thanks to
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	ruslan ermilov for spotting this and providing the patch.
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	removed fixed limit on number of open files; thanks to aleksey
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	cheusov and christos zoulos.
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	fixed day 1 bug that resurrected deleted elements of ARGV when
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	used as filenames (in lib.c).
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	minor type fiddles to make gcc -Wall -pedantic happier (but not
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	totally so); turned on -fno-strict-aliasing in makefile.
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May 6, 2011:
 | 
						|
	added #ifdef for isblank.
 | 
						|
	now allows -ffoo as well as -f foo arguments.
 | 
						|
	(thanks, ruslan)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 1, 2011:
 | 
						|
	after advice from todd miller, kevin lo, ruslan ermilov,
 | 
						|
	and arnold robbins, changed srand() to return the previous
 | 
						|
	seed (which is 1 on the first call of srand).  the seed is
 | 
						|
	an Awkfloat internally though converted to unsigned int to
 | 
						|
	pass to the library srand().  thanks, everyone.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed a subtle (and i hope low-probability) overflow error
 | 
						|
	in fldbld, by adding space for one extra \0.  thanks to
 | 
						|
	robert bassett for spotting this one and providing a fix.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed the files related to compilation on windows.  i no
 | 
						|
	longer have anything like a current windows environment, so
 | 
						|
	i can't test any of it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 23, 2010:
 | 
						|
	fixed long-standing overflow bug in run.c; many thanks to
 | 
						|
	nelson beebe for spotting it and providing the fix.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed bug that didn't parse -vd=1 properly; thanks to santiago
 | 
						|
	vila for spotting it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 8, 2010:
 | 
						|
	i give up.  replaced isblank with isspace in b.c; there are
 | 
						|
	no consistent header files.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 26, 2009:
 | 
						|
	fixed a long-standing issue with when FS takes effect.  a
 | 
						|
	change to FS is now noticed immediately for subsequent splits.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	changed the name getline() to awkgetline() to avoid yet another
 | 
						|
	name conflict somewhere.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 11, 2009:
 | 
						|
	temporarily for now defined HAS_ISBLANK, since that seems to
 | 
						|
	be the best way through the thicket.  isblank arrived in C99,
 | 
						|
	but seems to be arriving at different systems at different
 | 
						|
	times.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 8, 2008:
 | 
						|
	fixed typo in b.c that set tmpvec wrongly.  no one had ever
 | 
						|
	run into the problem, apparently.  thanks to alistair crooks.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 23, 2007:
 | 
						|
	minor fix in lib.c: increase inputFS to 100, change malloc
 | 
						|
	for fields to n+1.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed memory fault caused by out of order test in setsval.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	thanks to david o'brien, freebsd, for both fixes.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 1, 2007:
 | 
						|
	fiddle in makefile to fix for BSD make; thanks to igor sobrado.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Mar 31, 2007:
 | 
						|
	fixed some null pointer refs calling adjbuf.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 21, 2007:
 | 
						|
	fixed a bug in matching the null RE in sub and gsub.  thanks to al aho
 | 
						|
	who actually did the fix (in b.c), and to wolfgang seeberg for finding
 | 
						|
	it and providing a very compact test case.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed quotation in b.c; thanks to Hal Pratt and the Princeton Dante
 | 
						|
	Project.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed some no-effect asserts in run.c.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fiddled maketab.c to not complain about bison-generated values.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed the obsolete -V argument; fixed --version to print the
 | 
						|
	version and exit.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed wording and an outright error in the usage message; thanks to igor
 | 
						|
	sobrado and jason mcintyre.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed a bug in -d that caused core dump if no program followed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 1, 2007:
 | 
						|
	dropped mac.code from makefile; there are few non-MacOSX
 | 
						|
	mac's these days.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 17, 2006:
 | 
						|
	system() not flagged as unsafe in the unadvertised -safe option.
 | 
						|
	found it while enhancing tests before shipping the ;login: article.
 | 
						|
	practice what you preach.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed the 9-years-obsolete -mr and -mf flags.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added -version and --version options.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	core dump on linux with BEGIN {nextfile}, now fixed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed some #ifdef's in run.c and lex.c that appear to no
 | 
						|
	longer be necessary.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 24, 2005:
 | 
						|
	modified lib.c so that values of $0 et al are preserved in the END
 | 
						|
	block, apparently as required by posix.  thanks to havard eidnes
 | 
						|
	for the report and code.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 14, 2005:
 | 
						|
	fixed infinite loop in parsing, originally found by brian tsang.
 | 
						|
	thanks to arnold robbins for a suggestion that started me
 | 
						|
	rethinking it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Dec 31, 2004:
 | 
						|
	prevent overflow of -f array in main, head off potential error in
 | 
						|
	call of SYNTAX(), test malloc return in lib.c, all with thanks to
 | 
						|
	todd miller.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Dec 22, 2004:
 | 
						|
	cranked up size of NCHARS; coverity thinks it can be overrun with
 | 
						|
	smaller size, and i think that's right.  added some assertions to b.c
 | 
						|
	to catch places where it might overrun.  the RE code is still fragile.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Dec 5, 2004:
 | 
						|
	fixed a couple of overflow problems with ridiculous field numbers:
 | 
						|
	e.g., print $(2^32-1).  thanks to ruslan ermilov, giorgos keramidas
 | 
						|
	and david o'brien at freebsd.org for patches.  this really should
 | 
						|
	be re-done from scratch.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 21, 2004:
 | 
						|
	fixed another 25-year-old RE bug, in split.  it's another failure
 | 
						|
	to (re-)initialize.  thanks to steve fisher for spotting this and
 | 
						|
	providing a good test case.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 22, 2003:
 | 
						|
	fixed a bug in regular expressions that dates (so help me) from 1977;
 | 
						|
	it's been there from the beginning.  an anchored longest match that
 | 
						|
	was longer than the number of states triggered a failure to initialize
 | 
						|
	the machine properly.  many thanks to moinak ghosh for not only finding
 | 
						|
	this one but for providing a fix, in some of the most mysterious
 | 
						|
	code known to man.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed a storage leak in call() that appears to have been there since
 | 
						|
	1983 or so -- a function without an explicit return that assigns a
 | 
						|
	string to a parameter leaked a Cell.  thanks to moinak ghosh for
 | 
						|
	spotting this very subtle one.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 31, 2003:
 | 
						|
	fixed, thanks to andrey chernov and ruslan ermilov, a bug in lex.c
 | 
						|
	that mis-handled the character 255 in input.  (it was being compared
 | 
						|
	to EOF with a signed comparison.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 29, 2003:
 | 
						|
	fixed (i think) the long-standing botch that included the beginning of
 | 
						|
	line state ^ for RE's in the set of valid characters; this led to a
 | 
						|
	variety of odd problems, including failure to properly match certain
 | 
						|
	regular expressions in non-US locales.  thanks to ruslan for keeping
 | 
						|
	at this one.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 28, 2003:
 | 
						|
	n-th try at getting internationalization right, with thanks to volker
 | 
						|
	kiefel, arnold robbins and ruslan ermilov for advice, though they
 | 
						|
	should not be blamed for the outcome.  according to posix, "."  is the
 | 
						|
	radix character in programs and command line arguments regardless of
 | 
						|
	the locale; otherwise, the locale should prevail for input and output
 | 
						|
	of numbers.  so it's intended to work that way.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	i have rescinded the attempt to use strcoll in expanding shorthands in
 | 
						|
	regular expressions (cclenter).  its properties are much too
 | 
						|
	surprising; for example [a-c] matches aAbBc in locale en_US but abBcC
 | 
						|
	in locale fr_CA.  i can see how this might arise by implementation
 | 
						|
	but i cannot explain it to a human user.  (this behavior can be seen
 | 
						|
	in gawk as well; we're leaning on the same library.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	the issue appears to be that strcoll is meant for sorting, where
 | 
						|
	merging upper and lower case may make sense (though note that unix
 | 
						|
	sort does not do this by default either).  it is not appropriate
 | 
						|
	for regular expressions, where the goal is to match specific
 | 
						|
	patterns of characters.  in any case, the notations [:lower:], etc.,
 | 
						|
	are available in awk, and they are more likely to work correctly in
 | 
						|
	most locales.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	a moratorium is hereby declared on internationalization changes.
 | 
						|
	i apologize to friends and colleagues in other parts of the world.
 | 
						|
	i would truly like to get this "right", but i don't know what
 | 
						|
	that is, and i do not want to keep making changes until it's clear.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 4, 2003:
 | 
						|
	fixed bug that permitted non-terminated RE, as in "awk /x".
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 1, 2003:
 | 
						|
	subtle change to split: if source is empty, number of elems
 | 
						|
	is always 0 and the array is not set.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Mar 21, 2003:
 | 
						|
	added some parens to isblank, in another attempt to make things
 | 
						|
	internationally portable.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Mar 14, 2003:
 | 
						|
	the internationalization changes, somewhat modified, are now
 | 
						|
	reinstated.  in theory awk will now do character comparisons
 | 
						|
	and case conversions in national language, but "." will always
 | 
						|
	be the decimal point separator on input and output regardless
 | 
						|
	of national language.  isblank(){} has an #ifndef.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	this no longer compiles on windows: LC_MESSAGES isn't defined
 | 
						|
	in vc6++.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed subtle behavior in field and record splitting: if FS is
 | 
						|
	a single character and RS is not empty, \n is NOT a separator.
 | 
						|
	this tortuous reading is found in the awk book; behavior now
 | 
						|
	matches gawk and mawk.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Dec 13, 2002:
 | 
						|
	for the moment, the internationalization changes of nov 29 are
 | 
						|
	rolled back -- programs like x = 1.2 don't work in some locales,
 | 
						|
	because the parser is expecting x = 1,2.  until i understand this
 | 
						|
	better, this will have to wait.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 29, 2002:
 | 
						|
	modified b.c (with tiny changes in main and run) to support
 | 
						|
	locales, using strcoll and iswhatever tests for posix character
 | 
						|
	classes.  thanks to ruslan ermilov (ru@freebsd.org) for code.
 | 
						|
	the function isblank doesn't seem to have propagated to any
 | 
						|
	header file near me, so it's there explicitly.  not properly
 | 
						|
	tested on non-ascii character sets by me.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 28, 2002:
 | 
						|
	modified run/format() and tran/getsval() to do a slightly better
 | 
						|
	job on using OFMT for output from print and CONVFMT for other
 | 
						|
	number->string conversions, as promised by posix and done by
 | 
						|
	gawk and mawk.  there are still places where it doesn't work
 | 
						|
	right if CONVFMT is changed; by then the STR attribute of the
 | 
						|
	variable has been irrevocably set.  thanks to arnold robbins for
 | 
						|
	code and examples.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed subtle bug in format that could get core dump.  thanks to
 | 
						|
	Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> for finding and fixing.
 | 
						|
	minor cleanup in run.c / format() at the same time.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added some tests for null pointers to debugging printf's, which
 | 
						|
	were never intended for external consumption.  thanks to dave
 | 
						|
	kerns (dkerns@lucent.com) for pointing this out.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	GNU compatibility: an empty regexp matches anything (thanks to
 | 
						|
	dag-erling smorgrav, des@ofug.org).  subject to reversion if
 | 
						|
	this does more harm than good.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	pervasive small changes to make things more const-correct, as
 | 
						|
	reported by gcc's -Wwrite-strings.  as it says in the gcc manual,
 | 
						|
	this may be more nuisance than useful.  provoked by a suggestion
 | 
						|
	and code from arnaud desitter, arnaud@nimbus.geog.ox.ac.uk
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	minor documentation changes to note that this now compiles out
 | 
						|
	of the box on Mac OS X.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 10, 2002:
 | 
						|
	changed types in posix chars structure to quiet solaris cc.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 1, 2002:
 | 
						|
	fflush() or fflush("") flushes all files and pipes.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	length(arrayname) returns number of elements; thanks to
 | 
						|
	arnold robbins for suggestion.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added a makefile.win to make it easier to build on windows.
 | 
						|
	based on dan allen's buildwin.bat.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 16, 2001:
 | 
						|
	added support for posix character class names like [:digit:],
 | 
						|
	which are not exactly shorter than [0-9] and perhaps no more
 | 
						|
	portable.  thanks to dag-erling smorgrav for code.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 16, 2001:
 | 
						|
	removed -m option; no longer needed, and it was actually
 | 
						|
	broken (noted thanks to volker kiefel).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 10, 2001:
 | 
						|
	fixed an appalling bug in gettok: any sequence of digits, +,-, E, e,
 | 
						|
	and period was accepted as a valid number if it started with a period.
 | 
						|
	this would never have happened with the lex version.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	other 1-character botches, now fixed, include a bare $ and a
 | 
						|
	bare " at the end of the input.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 7, 2001:
 | 
						|
	more (const char *) casts in b.c and tran.c to silence warnings.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 15, 2000:
 | 
						|
	fixed a bug introduced in august 1997 that caused expressions
 | 
						|
	like $f[1] to be syntax errors.  thanks to arnold robbins for
 | 
						|
	noticing this and providing a fix.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 30, 2000:
 | 
						|
	fixed some nextfile bugs: not handling all cases.  thanks to
 | 
						|
	arnold robbins for pointing this out.  new regressions added.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	close() is now a function.  it returns whatever the library
 | 
						|
	fclose returns, and -1 for closing a file or pipe that wasn't
 | 
						|
	opened.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Sep 24, 2000:
 | 
						|
	permit \n explicitly in character classes; won't work right
 | 
						|
	if comes in as "[\n]" but ok as /[\n]/, because of multiple
 | 
						|
	processing of \'s.  thanks to arnold robbins.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
July 5, 2000:
 | 
						|
	minor fiddles in tran.c to keep compilers happy about uschar.
 | 
						|
	thanks to norman wilson.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 25, 2000:
 | 
						|
	yet another attempt at making 8-bit input work, with another
 | 
						|
	band-aid in b.c (member()), and some (uschar) casts to head
 | 
						|
	off potential errors in subscripts (like isdigit).  also
 | 
						|
	changed HAT to NCHARS-2.  thanks again to santiago vila.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	changed maketab.c to ignore apparently out of range definitions
 | 
						|
	instead of halting; new freeBSD generates one.  thanks to
 | 
						|
	jon snader <jsnader@ix.netcom.com> for pointing out the problem.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 2, 2000:
 | 
						|
	fixed an 8-bit problem in b.c by making several char*'s into
 | 
						|
	unsigned char*'s.  not clear i have them all yet.  thanks to
 | 
						|
	Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> for the bug report.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 21, 2000:
 | 
						|
	finally found and fixed a memory leak in function call; it's
 | 
						|
	been there since functions were added ~1983.  thanks to
 | 
						|
	jon bentley for the test case that found it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added test in envinit to catch environment "variables" with
 | 
						|
	names beginning with '='; thanks to Berend Hasselman.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 28, 1999:
 | 
						|
	added test in defn() to catch function foo(foo), which
 | 
						|
	otherwise recurses until core dump.  thanks to arnold
 | 
						|
	robbins for noticing this.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 20, 1999:
 | 
						|
	added *bp in gettok in lex.c; appears possible to exit function
 | 
						|
	without terminating the string.  thanks to russ cox.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 2, 1999:
 | 
						|
	added function stdinit() to run to initialize files[] array,
 | 
						|
	in case stdin, etc., are not constants; some compilers care.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 10, 1999:
 | 
						|
	replaced the ERROR ... FATAL, etc., macros with functions
 | 
						|
	based on vprintf, to avoid problems caused by overrunning
 | 
						|
	fixed-size errbuf array.  thanks to ralph corderoy for the
 | 
						|
	impetus, and for pointing out a string termination bug in
 | 
						|
	qstring as well.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 21, 1999:
 | 
						|
	fixed bug that caused occasional core dumps with commandline
 | 
						|
	variable with value ending in \.  (thanks to nelson beebe for
 | 
						|
	the test case.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 16, 1999:
 | 
						|
	with code kindly provided by Bruce Lilly, awk now parses
 | 
						|
	/=/ and similar constructs more sensibly in more places.
 | 
						|
	Bruce also provided some helpful test cases.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 5, 1999:
 | 
						|
	changed true/false to True/False in run.c to make it
 | 
						|
	easier to compile with C++.  Added some casts on malloc
 | 
						|
	and realloc to be honest about casts; ditto.  changed
 | 
						|
	ltype int to long in struct rrow to reduce some 64-bit
 | 
						|
	complaints; other changes scattered throughout for the
 | 
						|
	same purpose.  thanks to Nelson Beebe for these portability
 | 
						|
	improvements.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed some horrible pointer-int casting in b.c and elsewhere
 | 
						|
	by adding ptoi and itonp to localize the casts, which are
 | 
						|
	all benign.  fixed one incipient bug that showed up on sgi
 | 
						|
	in 64-bit mode.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	reset lineno for new source file; include filename in error
 | 
						|
	message.  also fixed line number error in continuation lines.
 | 
						|
	(thanks to Nelson Beebe for both of these.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Mar 24, 1999:
 | 
						|
	Nelson Beebe notes that irix 5.3 yacc dies with a bogus
 | 
						|
	error; use a newer version or switch to bison, since sgi
 | 
						|
	is unlikely to fix it.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Mar 5, 1999:
 | 
						|
	changed isnumber to is_number to avoid the problem caused by
 | 
						|
	versions of ctype.h that include the name isnumber.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	distribution now includes a script for building on a Mac,
 | 
						|
	thanks to Dan Allen.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 20, 1999:
 | 
						|
	fixed memory leaks in run.c (call) and tran.c (setfval).
 | 
						|
	thanks to Stephen Nutt for finding these and providing the fixes.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 13, 1999:
 | 
						|
	replaced srand argument by (unsigned int) in run.c;
 | 
						|
	avoids problem on Mac and potentially on Unix & Windows.
 | 
						|
	thanks to Dan Allen.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added a few (int) casts to silence useless compiler warnings.
 | 
						|
	e.g., errorflag= in run.c jump().
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added proctab.c to the bundle outout; one less thing
 | 
						|
	to have to compile out of the box.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added calls to _popen and _pclose to the win95 stub for
 | 
						|
	pipes (thanks to Steve Adams for this helpful suggestion).
 | 
						|
	seems to work, though properties are not well understood
 | 
						|
	by me, and it appears that under some circumstances the
 | 
						|
	pipe output is truncated.  Be careful.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 19, 1998:
 | 
						|
	fixed a couple of bugs in getrec: could fail to update $0
 | 
						|
	after a getline var; because inputFS wasn't initialized,
 | 
						|
	could split $0 on every character, a misleading diversion.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed caching bug in makedfa: LRU was actually removing
 | 
						|
	least often used.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	thanks to ross ridge for finding these, and for providing
 | 
						|
	great bug reports.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 12, 1998:
 | 
						|
	fixed potential bug in readrec: might fail to update record
 | 
						|
	pointer after growing.  thanks to dan levy for spotting this
 | 
						|
	and suggesting the fix.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Mar 12, 1998:
 | 
						|
	added -V to print version number and die.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
[notify dave kerns, dkerns@dacsoup.ih.lucent.com]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 11, 1998:
 | 
						|
	subtle silent bug in lex.c: if the program ended with a number
 | 
						|
	longer than 1 digit, part of the input would be pushed back and
 | 
						|
	parsed again because token buffer wasn't terminated right.
 | 
						|
	example:  awk 'length($0) > 10'.  blush.  at least i found it
 | 
						|
	myself.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 31, 1997:
 | 
						|
	s/adelete/awkdelete/: SGI uses this in malloc.h.
 | 
						|
	thanks to nelson beebe for pointing this one out.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 21, 1997:
 | 
						|
	fixed some bugs in sub and gsub when replacement includes \\.
 | 
						|
	this is a dark, horrible corner, but at least now i believe that
 | 
						|
	the behavior is the same as gawk and the intended posix standard.
 | 
						|
	thanks to arnold robbins for advice here.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 9, 1997:
 | 
						|
	somewhat regretfully, replaced the ancient lex-based lexical
 | 
						|
	analyzer with one written in C.  it's longer, generates less code,
 | 
						|
	and more portable; the old one depended too much on mysterious
 | 
						|
	properties of lex that were not preserved in other environments.
 | 
						|
	in theory these recognize the same language.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	now using strtod to test whether a string is a number, instead of
 | 
						|
	the convoluted original function.  should be more portable and
 | 
						|
	reliable if strtod is implemented right.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed now-pointless optimization in makefile that tries to avoid
 | 
						|
	recompilation when awkgram.y is changed but symbols are not.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed most fixed-size arrays, though a handful remain, some
 | 
						|
	of which are unchecked.  you have been warned.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 4, 1997:
 | 
						|
	with some trepidation, replaced the ancient code that managed
 | 
						|
	fields and $0 in fixed-size arrays with arrays that grow on
 | 
						|
	demand.  there is still some tension between trying to make this
 | 
						|
	run fast and making it clean; not sure it's right yet.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	the ill-conceived -mr and -mf arguments are now useful only
 | 
						|
	for debugging.  previous dynamic string code removed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	numerous other minor cleanups along the way.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 30, 1997:
 | 
						|
	using code provided by dan levy (to whom profuse thanks), replaced
 | 
						|
	fixed-size arrays and awkward kludges by a fairly uniform mechanism
 | 
						|
	to grow arrays as needed for printf, sub, gsub, etc.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 23, 1997:
 | 
						|
	falling off the end of a function returns "" and 0, not 0.
 | 
						|
	thanks to arnold robbins.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 17, 1997:
 | 
						|
	replaced several fixed-size arrays by dynamically-created ones
 | 
						|
	in run.c; added overflow tests to some previously unchecked cases.
 | 
						|
	getline, toupper, tolower.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	getline code is still broken in that recursive calls may wind
 | 
						|
	up using the same space.  [fixed later]
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	increased RECSIZE to 8192 to push problems further over the horizon.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added \r to \n as input line separator for programs, not data.
 | 
						|
	damn CRLFs.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	modified format() to permit explicit printf("%c", 0) to include
 | 
						|
	a null byte in output.  thanks to ken stailey for the fix.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added a "-safe" argument that disables file output (print >,
 | 
						|
	print >>), process creation (cmd|getline, print |, system), and
 | 
						|
	access to the environment (ENVIRON).  this is a first approximation
 | 
						|
	to a "safe" version of awk, but don't rely on it too much.  thanks
 | 
						|
	to joan feigenbaum and matt blaze for the inspiration long ago.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 8, 1996:
 | 
						|
	fixed long-standing bug in sub, gsub(/a/, "\\\\&"); thanks to
 | 
						|
	ralph corderoy.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 29, 1996:
 | 
						|
	fixed awful bug in new field splitting; didn't get all the places
 | 
						|
	where input was done.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 28, 1996:
 | 
						|
	changed field-splitting to conform to posix definition: fields are
 | 
						|
	split using the value of FS at the time of input; it used to be
 | 
						|
	the value when the field or NF was first referred to, a much less
 | 
						|
	predictable definition.  thanks to arnold robbins for encouragement
 | 
						|
	to do the right thing.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 28, 1996:
 | 
						|
	fixed appalling but apparently unimportant bug in parsing octal
 | 
						|
	numbers in reg exprs.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	explicit hex in reg exprs now limited to 2 chars: \xa, \xaa.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 27, 1996:
 | 
						|
	cleaned up some declarations so gcc -Wall is now almost silent.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	makefile now includes backup copies of ytab.c and lexyy.c in case
 | 
						|
	one makes before looking; it also avoids recreating lexyy.c unless
 | 
						|
	really needed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	s/aprintf/awkprint, s/asprintf/awksprintf/ to avoid some name clashes
 | 
						|
	with unwisely-written header files.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	thanks to jeffrey friedl for several of these.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 26, 1996:
 | 
						|
	an attempt to rationalize the (unsigned) char issue.  almost all
 | 
						|
	instances of unsigned char have been removed; the handful of places
 | 
						|
	in b.c where chars are used as table indices have been hand-crafted.
 | 
						|
	added some latin-1 tests to the regression, but i'm not confident;
 | 
						|
	none of my compilers seem to care much.  thanks to nelson beebe for
 | 
						|
	pointing out some others that do care.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 2, 1996:
 | 
						|
	removed all register declarations.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	enhanced split(), as in gawk, etc:  split(s, a, "") splits s into
 | 
						|
	a[1]...a[length(s)] with each character a single element.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	made the same changes for field-splitting if FS is "".
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added nextfile, as in gawk: causes immediate advance to next
 | 
						|
	input file. (thanks to arnold robbins for inspiration and code).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	small fixes to regexpr code:  can now handle []], [[], and
 | 
						|
	variants;  [] is now a syntax error, rather than matching
 | 
						|
	everything;  [z-a] is now empty, not z.  far from complete
 | 
						|
	or correct, however.  (thanks to jeffrey friedl for pointing out
 | 
						|
	some awful behaviors.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 29, 1996:
 | 
						|
	replaced uchar by uschar everywhere; apparently some compilers
 | 
						|
	usurp this name and this causes conflicts.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed call to time in run.c (bltin); arg is time_t *.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	replaced horrible pointer/long punning in b.c by a legitimate
 | 
						|
	union.  should be safer on 64-bit machines and cleaner everywhere.
 | 
						|
	(thanks to nelson beebe for pointing out some of these problems.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	replaced nested comments by #if 0...#endif in run.c, lib.c.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed getsval, setsval, execute macros from run.c and lib.c.
 | 
						|
	machines are 100x faster than they were when these macros were
 | 
						|
	first used.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	revised filenames: awk.g.y => awkgram.y, awk.lx.l => awklex.l,
 | 
						|
	y.tab.[ch] => ytab.[ch], lex.yy.c => lexyy.c, all in the aid of
 | 
						|
	portability to nameless systems.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	"make bundle" now includes yacc and lex output files for recipients
 | 
						|
	who don't have yacc or lex.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 15, 1995:
 | 
						|
	initialized Cells in setsymtab more carefully; some fields
 | 
						|
	were not set.  (thanks to purify, all of whose complaints i
 | 
						|
	think i now understand.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed at least one error in gsub that looked at -1-th element
 | 
						|
	of an array when substituting for a null match (e.g., $).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	delete arrayname is now legal; it clears the elements but leaves
 | 
						|
	the array, which may not be the right behavior.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	modified makefile: my current make can't cope with the test used
 | 
						|
	to avoid unnecessary yacc invocations.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 17, 1995:
 | 
						|
	added dynamically growing strings to awk.lx.l and b.c
 | 
						|
	to permit regular expressions to be much bigger.
 | 
						|
	the state arrays can still overflow.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 24, 1994:
 | 
						|
	detect duplicate arguments in function definitions (mdm).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 11, 1994:
 | 
						|
	trivial fix to printf to limit string size in sub().
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 22, 1994:
 | 
						|
	fixed yet another subtle self-assignment problem:
 | 
						|
	$1 = $2; $1 = $1 clobbered $1.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	Regression tests now use private echo, to avoid quoting problems.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 2, 1994:
 | 
						|
	changed error() to print line number as %d, not %g.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 23, 1993:
 | 
						|
	cosmetic changes: increased sizes of some arrays,
 | 
						|
	reworded some error messages.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added CONVFMT as in posix (just replaced OFMT in getsval)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	FILENAME is now "" until the first thing that causes a file
 | 
						|
	to be opened.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 28, 1992:
 | 
						|
	deleted yyunput and yyoutput from proto.h;
 | 
						|
	different versions of lex give these different declarations.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 31, 1992:
 | 
						|
	added -mr N and -mf N options: more record and fields.
 | 
						|
	these really ought to adjust automatically.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	cleaned up some error messages; "out of space" now means
 | 
						|
	malloc returned NULL in all cases.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	changed rehash so that if it runs out, it just returns;
 | 
						|
	things will continue to run slow, but maybe a bit longer.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 24, 1992:
 | 
						|
	remove redundant close of stdin when using -f -.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	got rid of core dump with -d; awk -d just prints date.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 12, 1992:
 | 
						|
	added explicit check for /dev/std(in,out,err) in redirection.
 | 
						|
	unlike gawk, no /dev/fd/n yet.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added (file/pipe) builtin.  hard to test satisfactorily.
 | 
						|
	not posix.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 20, 1992:
 | 
						|
	recompile after abortive changes;  should be unchanged.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Dec 2, 1991:
 | 
						|
	die-casting time:  converted to ansi C, installed that.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 30, 1991:
 | 
						|
	fixed storage leak in freefa, failing to recover [N]CCL.
 | 
						|
	thanks to Bill Jones (jones@cs.usask.ca)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 19, 1991:
 | 
						|
	use RAND_MAX instead of literal in builtin().
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 12, 1991:
 | 
						|
	cranked up some fixed-size arrays in b.c, and added a test for
 | 
						|
	overflow in penter.  thanks to mark larsen.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Sep 24, 1991:
 | 
						|
	increased buffer in gsub.  a very crude fix to a general problem.
 | 
						|
	and again on Sep 26.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 18, 1991:
 | 
						|
	enforce variable name syntax for commandline variables: has to
 | 
						|
	start with letter or _.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 27, 1991:
 | 
						|
	allow newline after ; in for statements.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 21, 1991:
 | 
						|
	fixed so that in self-assignment like $1=$1, side effects
 | 
						|
	like recomputing $0 take place.  (this is getting subtle.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 30, 1991:
 | 
						|
	better test for detecting too-long output record.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 2, 1991:
 | 
						|
	better defense against very long printf strings.
 | 
						|
	made break and continue illegal outside of loops.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 13, 1991:
 | 
						|
	removed extra arg on gettemp, tempfree.  minor error message rewording.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 6, 1991:
 | 
						|
	fixed silly bug in hex parsing in hexstr().
 | 
						|
	removed an apparently unnecessary test in isnumber().
 | 
						|
	warn about weird printf conversions.
 | 
						|
	fixed unchecked array overwrite in relex().
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	changed for (i in array) to access elements in sorted order.
 | 
						|
	then unchanged it -- it really does run slower in too many cases.
 | 
						|
	left the code in place, commented out.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 10, 1991:
 | 
						|
	check error status on all writes, to avoid banging on full disks.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 28, 1991:
 | 
						|
	awk -f - reads the program from stdin.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 11, 1991:
 | 
						|
	failed to set numeric state on $0 in cmd|getline context in run.c.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Nov 2, 1990:
 | 
						|
	fixed sleazy test for integrality in getsval;  use modf.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 29, 1990:
 | 
						|
	fixed sleazy buggy code in lib.c that looked (incorrectly) for
 | 
						|
	too long input lines.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 14, 1990:
 | 
						|
	fixed the bug on p. 198 in which it couldn't deduce that an
 | 
						|
	argument was an array in some contexts.  replaced the error
 | 
						|
	message in intest() by code that damn well makes it an array.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 8, 1990:
 | 
						|
	fixed horrible bug:  types and values were not preserved in
 | 
						|
	some kinds of self-assignment. (in assign().)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 24, 1990:
 | 
						|
	changed NCHARS to 256 to handle 8-bit characters in strings
 | 
						|
	presented to match(), etc.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 26, 1990:
 | 
						|
	changed struct rrow (awk.h) to use long instead of int for lval,
 | 
						|
	since cfoll() stores a pointer in it.  now works better when int's
 | 
						|
	are smaller than pointers!
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
May 6, 1990:
 | 
						|
	AVA fixed the grammar so that ! is uniformly of the same precedence as
 | 
						|
	unary + and -.  This renders illegal some constructs like !x=y, which
 | 
						|
	now has to be parenthesized as !(x=y), and makes others work properly:
 | 
						|
	!x+y is (!x)+y, and x!y is x !y, not two pattern-action statements.
 | 
						|
	(These problems were pointed out by Bob Lenk of Posix.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	Added \x to regular expressions (already in strings).
 | 
						|
	Limited octal to octal digits; \8 and \9 are not octal.
 | 
						|
	Centralized the code for parsing escapes in regular expressions.
 | 
						|
	Added a bunch of tests to T.re and T.sub to verify some of this.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Feb 9, 1990:
 | 
						|
	fixed null pointer dereference bug in main.c:  -F[nothing].  sigh.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	restored srand behavior:  it returns the current seed.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 18, 1990:
 | 
						|
	srand now returns previous seed value (0 to start).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 5, 1990:
 | 
						|
	fix potential problem in tran.c -- something was freed,
 | 
						|
	then used in freesymtab.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 18, 1989:
 | 
						|
	another try to get the max number of open files set with
 | 
						|
	relatively machine-independent code.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	small fix to input() in case of multiple reads after EOF.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Oct 11, 1989:
 | 
						|
	FILENAME is now defined in the BEGIN block -- too many old
 | 
						|
	programs broke.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	"-" means stdin in getline as well as on the commandline.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	added a bunch of casts to the code to tell the truth about
 | 
						|
	char * vs. unsigned char *, a right royal pain.  added a
 | 
						|
	setlocale call to the front of main, though probably no one
 | 
						|
	has it usefully implemented yet.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 24, 1989:
 | 
						|
	removed redundant relational tests against nullnode if parse
 | 
						|
	tree already had a relational at that point.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 11, 1989:
 | 
						|
	fixed bug:  commandline variable assignment has to look like
 | 
						|
	var=something.  (consider the man page for =, in file =.1)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	changed number of arguments to functions to static arrays
 | 
						|
	to avoid repeated malloc calls.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Aug 2, 1989:
 | 
						|
	restored -F (space) separator
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 30, 1989:
 | 
						|
	added -v x=1 y=2 ... for immediate commandline variable assignment;
 | 
						|
	done before the BEGIN block for sure.  they have to precede the
 | 
						|
	program if the program is on the commandline.
 | 
						|
	Modified Aug 2 to require a separate -v for each assignment.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jul 10, 1989:
 | 
						|
	fixed ref-thru-zero bug in environment code in tran.c
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 23, 1989:
 | 
						|
	add newline to usage message.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 14, 1989:
 | 
						|
	added some missing ansi printf conversion letters: %i %X %E %G.
 | 
						|
	no sensible meaning for h or L, so they may not do what one expects.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	made %* conversions work.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	changed x^y so that if n is a positive integer, it's done
 | 
						|
	by explicit multiplication, thus achieving maximum accuracy.
 | 
						|
	(this should be done by pow() but it seems not to be locally.)
 | 
						|
	done to x ^= y as well.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jun 4, 1989:
 | 
						|
	ENVIRON array contains environment: if shell variable V=thing,
 | 
						|
		ENVIRON["V"] is "thing"
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	multiple -f arguments permitted.  error reporting is naive.
 | 
						|
	(they were permitted before, but only the last was used.)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed a really stupid botch in the debugging macro dprintf
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	fixed order of evaluation of commandline assignments to match
 | 
						|
	what the book claims:  an argument of the form x=e is evaluated
 | 
						|
	at the time it would have been opened if it were a filename (p 63).
 | 
						|
	this invalidates the suggested answer to ex 4-1 (p 195).
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	removed some code that permitted -F (space) fieldseparator,
 | 
						|
	since it didn't quite work right anyway.  (restored aug 2)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 27, 1989:
 | 
						|
	Line number now accumulated correctly for comment lines.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 26, 1989:
 | 
						|
	Debugging output now includes a version date,
 | 
						|
	if one compiles it into the source each time.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Apr 9, 1989:
 | 
						|
	Changed grammar to prohibit constants as 3rd arg of sub and gsub;
 | 
						|
	prevents class of overwriting-a-constant errors.  (Last one?)
 | 
						|
	This invalidates the "banana" example on page 43 of the book.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
	Added \a ("alert"), \v (vertical tab), \xhhh (hexadecimal),
 | 
						|
	as in ANSI, for strings.  Rescinded the sloppiness that permitted
 | 
						|
	non-octal digits in \ooo.  Warning:  not all compilers and libraries
 | 
						|
	will be able to deal with \x correctly.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Jan 9, 1989:
 | 
						|
	Fixed bug that caused tempcell list to contain a duplicate.
 | 
						|
	The fix is kludgy.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Dec 17, 1988:
 | 
						|
	Catches some more commandline errors in main.
 | 
						|
	Removed redundant decl of modf in run.c (confuses some compilers).
 | 
						|
	Warning:  there's no single declaration of malloc, etc., in awk.h
 | 
						|
	that seems to satisfy all compilers.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Dec 7, 1988:
 | 
						|
	Added a bit of code to error printing to avoid printing nulls.
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	(Not clear that it actually would.)
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Nov 27, 1988:
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	With fear and trembling, modified the grammar to permit
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	multiple pattern-action statements on one line without
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	an explicit separator.  By definition, this capitulation
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	to the ghost of ancient implementations remains undefined
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	and thus subject to change without notice or apology.
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	DO NOT COUNT ON IT.
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Oct 30, 1988:
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	Fixed bug in call() that failed to recover storage.
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	A warning is now generated if there are more arguments
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	in the call than in the definition (in lieu of fixing
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	another storage leak).
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Oct 20, 1988:
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	Fixed %c:  if expr is numeric, use numeric value;
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	otherwise print 1st char of string value.  still
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	doesn't work if the value is 0 -- won't print \0.
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	Added a few more checks for running out of malloc.
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Oct 12, 1988:
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	Fixed bug in call() that freed local arrays twice.
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	Fixed to handle deletion of non-existent array right;
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	complains about attempt to delete non-array element.
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Sep 30, 1988:
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	Now guarantees to evaluate all arguments of built-in
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	functions, as in C;  the appearance is that arguments
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	are evaluated before the function is called.  Places
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	affected are sub (gsub was ok), substr, printf, and
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	all the built-in arithmetic functions in bltin().
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	A warning is generated if a bltin() is called with
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	the wrong number of arguments.
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	This requires changing makeprof on p167 of the book.
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Aug 23, 1988:
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	setting FILENAME in BEGIN caused core dump, apparently
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	because it was freeing space not allocated by malloc.
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July 24, 1988:
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	fixed egregious error in toupper/tolower functions.
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	still subject to rescinding, however.
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July 2, 1988:
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	flush stdout before opening file or pipe
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July 2, 1988:
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	performance bug in b.c/cgoto(): not freeing some sets of states.
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	partial fix only right now, and the number of states increased
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	to make it less obvious.
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June 1, 1988:
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	check error status on close
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May 28, 1988:
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	srand returns seed value it's using.
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	see 1/18/90
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May 22, 1988:
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	Removed limit on depth of function calls.
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May 10, 1988:
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	Fixed lib.c to permit _ in commandline variable names.
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						|
Mar 25, 1988:
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	main.c fixed to recognize -- as terminator of command-
 | 
						|
	line options.  Illegal options flagged.
 | 
						|
	Error reporting slightly cleaned up.
 | 
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 | 
						|
Dec 2, 1987:
 | 
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	Newer C compilers apply a strict scope rule to extern
 | 
						|
	declarations within functions.  Two extern declarations in
 | 
						|
	lib.c and tran.c have been moved to obviate this problem.
 | 
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 | 
						|
Oct xx, 1987:
 | 
						|
	Reluctantly added toupper and tolower functions.
 | 
						|
	Subject to rescinding without notice.
 | 
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 | 
						|
Sep 17, 1987:
 | 
						|
	Error-message printer had printf(s) instead of
 | 
						|
	printf("%s",s);  got core dumps when the message
 | 
						|
	included a %.
 | 
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 | 
						|
Sep 12, 1987:
 | 
						|
	Very long printf strings caused core dump;
 | 
						|
	fixed aprintf, asprintf, format to catch them.
 | 
						|
	Can still get a core dump in printf itself.
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