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<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.

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Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.
Changes from 5.3.x to 5.4.0
---------------------------
1. This release now uses Mike Haertel's MinRX regular expression matcher
as the default regexp engine. The old regex and dfa engines are still
available. More detail is available in the manual, and in the file
README_d/README.matchers. At the very least, read that file!
2. The manual, in the Bugs section, now makes it explicit that
(a) Ad hominem attacks on the lists will not be tolerated, and
(b) Discussion of proprietary software is strongly discouraged.
Repeated offenses are grounds for being banned from the lists.
3. There is now a new directive, @nsinclude, which works like @include
but does not reset the namespace for the included file to "awk". See
the manual for details.
4. When using lshift() or rshift() and attempting to shift by as many
or more bits than in a uintmax_t, gawk returns zero, instead of
whatever the C compiler and hardware might have done.
5. Gawk's use of persistent memory has changed somewhat:
A. Gawk now stores additional meta-information in the backing file.
This means that if you have a backing file with important data
in it, you should dump the data to a text file using the old version,
create a new backing file, and then read your data back in with
the new version, to a *brand new* backing file.
B. Gawk generates a warning if the version of gawk saved in the backing
file doesn't match that of the current running gawk.
C. It's now possible to use persistent memory and dynamic extensions
without problems. Gawk notices if an extension is being loaded from
a different path than what was first used and produces a fatal error
in this case.
6. The ordchr extension now supports multibyte / wide characters.
7. Per the 2024 POSIX standard, `length(array)' is no longer an extension,
but a regular feature. Thus --posix no longer rejects it and --lint
no longer warns about it.
8. The --traditional option has been rationalized to bring gawk into
sync with BWK awk. It no longer affects the return code from system(),
and it no longer prevents using a regexp for RS. Internally, the
code was cleaned up some as well.
9. Assertions in the C code are now enabled. To disable them, manually
edit the various Makefiles after running configure and before
running make. You will need to add -DNDEBUG to the CFLAGS variable.
10. PMA should now work on OpenBSD 7, FreeBSD 12 - 16, NetBSD 10 and 11,
and MidnightBSD 3 and 4.
11. Hexadecimal floating-point values may now be used in program source code,
with strtonum(), and with the -n/--non-decimal-data option. See the
manual for details.
12. A large number of small "replacement" files for standard functions
have been removed. These functions are now so standard that we
simply expect them to always be available. This simplifies the
distribution and the code maintenance.
13. Support for UDP in gawk's networking support is now obsolete.
It never worked very well. It will be removed in version 6.0.
Gawk issues a warning when attempting to use it.
14. Reading regular disk input files should be somewhat faster now,
since gawk no longer checks for timeouts on such files. On one
very large file, gawk '{ print }' saw approximately a 9% speedup.
15. The MinGW port of gawk for MS-Windows now supports UTF-8 encoded
non-ASCII text when the console window where gawk runs uses the
Windows codepage 65001 for output, even if the system-wide locale
specifies another codepage.
Similarly, the Cygwin port now also fully supports UTF-8.
16. There is a new option to configure: --enable-O3. This causes gcc to
use -O3 instead of -O2 when compiling gawk. This is not the default
because experience in some projects has shown (sadly) that -O3 can cause
bugs.
17. There is a new translation: Arabic. The .gmo files for the ca, da, fi,
ja, ka, ms, and vi translations are no longer built or included in
the distribution, as those translations have gone too long without
being updated. The .po files remain in the distribution, should
any volunteers wish to come forward to update them.
18. OpenVMS support has been updated. This release builds on
Alpha, Itanium and x86_64.
19. As usual, a number of small bugs have been fixed; see the ChangeLog
for the details.
Changes from 5.3.2 to 5.3.x
---------------------------
1. The Hebrew translation has been revived.
2. All non-standard variables are now not installed for --traditional
and --posix.
3. It's been discovered that persistent memory and dynamic extensions don't mix.
For now, trying this combination produces a fatal error. It may one day
get fixed. Or, it may not.
4. A bug in the API has been fixed whereby using a numeric index to set an
array element will work. As a result, the API minor version was increased to 1.
Changes from 5.3.1 to 5.3.2
---------------------------
1. The pretty printer now produces fewer spurious newlines; at the
outermost level it now adds newlines between block comments and
the block or function that follows them. The extra final newline
is no longer produced.
2. OpenVMS 9.2-2 x86_64 is now supported.
3. On Linux and macos systems, the -no-pie linker flag is no longer required.
PMA now works on macos systems with Apple silicon, and not just
Intel systems.
4. Still more subtle issues related to uninitialized array elements have
been fixed.
5. Associative arrays should now not grow quite as fast as they used to.
6. The code and documentation are now consistent with each other with
respect to path searching and adding .awk to the filename. Both
are always done, even with --posix and --traditional.
7. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.3.0 to 5.3.1
---------------------------
1. More subtle issues related to uninitialized array elements have
been fixed.
2. A number of bugs in the debugger related to handling of arrays
have been fixed.
3. Some subtle bugs in the API have been fixed.
4. Use of MPFR is now possible again on 32-bit Power PC Mac systems.
5. Race conditions around broken pipes for system() and read and write
pipes should now be closed off.
6. Support for OSF/1 has been removed.
7. The never-documented --nostalgia option has been removed. It was
causing bug reports.
8. The implementation of printf/sprintf has been thoroughly reworked
in order to make the code more maintainable and to fix a goodly
number of corner cases.
9. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.2.x to 5.3.0
---------------------------
1. Infrastructure changes: Removed the use of libsigsegv. The
value-add was never very much and it caused problems in some
environments.
2. In keeping with new features in BWK awk, gawk now has built-in
CSV file parsing. The behavior is intended to be identical to
that of the "One True AWK" when --csv is applied. See the
manual for details.
3. Also in keeping with BWK awk, gawk now supports a new \u escape
sequence. This should be followed by 1-8 hexadecimal digits. The
given code point is converted to its corresponding multibyte encoding
for storage inside gawk. See the manual.
4. If PROCINFO["BUFFERPIPE"] exists, then pipe output is buffered.
You can also use PROCINFO["command", "BUFFERPIPE"]. See the manual
for details.
5. Because of the additional `do_csv' variable in the API, which breaks
binary compatibility, the API major version was updated to 4 and
the minor version was reset to zero. The API remains source code
compatible; that is, existing extensions should only require recompilation.
6. The manual now requires Texinfo 7.1 and its texinfo.tex for formatting.
As a result, we no longer need to pre-process it, removing the need
for gawktexi.in and leaving just gawk.texi.
7. And of course, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.2.2 to 5.2.x
---------------------------
1. The readdir extension has been updated with additonal code and
features, see the manual or its man page. As a result, the
readdir_test.c extension has been removed.
2. We have a new translation: Ukrainian.
3. Several subtle issues related to null regexp matches around
multibyte characters have been fixed.
Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2
---------------------------
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.
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.
4. Gawk no longer "leaks" its free list of NODEs in the heap file, resulting
in much more efficient usage of persistent storage.
5. PROCINFO["pma"] exists if the PMA allocator is compiled into gawk.
Its value is the PMA version.
6. The time extension is no longer deprecated. The strptime() function
from gawkextlib's timex extension has been added to it.
7. Better information is passed to input parsers for when they want to
decide whether or not to take control of a file. In particular, the
readdir extension is simplified for Windows because of this.
8. The various PNG files are now installed for Info and HTML. The
images files now have gawk_ prefixed names to avoid any conflicts
with other installed PNG file names.
9. 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
---------------------------
1. Infrastructure upgrades: PMA version Avon 8.
2. Issues related to the sign of NaN and Inf values on RiscV have
been fixed; gawk now gives identical results on that platform as
it does on others.
3. A few issues with the debugger have been fixed.
4. More subtle issues with untyped array elements being passed to
functions have been fixed.
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.
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.
Changes from 5.1.x to 5.2.0
---------------------------
*****************************************************************************
* MPFR mode (the -M option) is now ON PAROLE. This feature is now being *
* supported by a volunteer in the development team and not by the primary *
* maintainer. If this situation changes, then the feature will be removed. *
* For more information see this section in the manual: *
* https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/MPFR-On-Parole.html *
*****************************************************************************
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Libtool 2.4.7, Bison 3.8.2.
2. Numeric scalars now compare in the same way as C for the relational
operators. Comparison order for sorting has not changed. This only
makes a difference when comparing Infinity and NaN values with
regular numbers; it should not be noticeable most of the time.
3. If the AWK_HASH environment variable is set to "fnv1a" gawk will
use the FNV1-A hash function for associative arrays.
4. The CMake infrastructure has been removed. In the five years it was in
the tree, nobody used it, and it was not updated.
5. There is now a new function, mkbool(), that creates Boolean-typed
values. These values *are* numbers, but they are also tagged as
Boolean. This is mainly for use with data exchange to/from languages
or environments that support real Boolean values. See the manual
for details.
6. As BWK awk has supported interval expressions since 2019, they are
now enabled even if --traditional is supplied. The -r/--re-interval option
remains, but it does nothing.
7. The rwarray extension has two new functions, writeall() and readall(),
for saving / restoring all of gawk's variables and arrays.
8. The new `gawkbug' script should be used for reporting bugs.
9. The manual page (doc/gawk.1) has been considerably reduced in size.
Wherever possible, details were replaced with references to the online
copy of the manual.
10. Gawk now supports Terence Kelly's "persistent malloc" (pma),
allowing gawk to preserve its variables, arrays and user-defined
functions between runs. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE!
For more information, see the manual. A new pm-gawk.1 man page
is included, as is a separate user manual that focuses on the feature.
11. Support for OS/2 has been removed. It was not being actively
maintained.
12. Similarly, support for DJGPP has been removed. It also was not
being actively maintained.
13. VAX/VMS is no longer supported, as it can no longer be tested.
The files for it remain in the distribution but will be removed
eventually.
14. Some subtle issues with untyped array elements being passed to
functions have been fixed.
15. Syntax errors are now immediately fatal. This prevents problems
with errors from fuzzers and other such things.
16. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.x
---------------------------
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Automake 1.16.5, Texinfo 6.8.
2. The rwarray extension now supports writing and reading GMP and
MPFR values. As a result, a bug in the API code was fixed.
Changes from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
---------------------------
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.8, Gettext 0.20.2, Automake 1.16.4,
and (will wonders never cease) Autoconf 2.71.
2. asort and asorti now allow FUNCTAB and SYMTAB as the first argument if a
second destination array is supplied. Similarly, using either array as
the second argument is now a fatal error. Additionally, using either
array as the destination for split(), match(), etc. also causes a
fatal error.
3. The new -I/--trace option prints a trace of the byte codes as they
are executed.
4. A number of subtle bugs relating to MPFR mode that caused differences
between regular operation and MPFR mode have been fixed.
5. The API now handles MPFR/GMP values slightly differently, requiring
different memory management for those values. See the manual for the
details if you have an extension using those values. As a result,
the minor version was incremented.
6. $0 and the fields are now cleared before starting a BEGINFILE rule.
7. The duplication of m4 and build-aux directories between the main
directory and the extension directory has been removed. This
simplifies the distribution.
8. The test suite has been improved, making it easier to run the entire
suite with -M. Use `GAWK_TEST_ARGS=-M make check' to do so.
9. Profiling and pretty-printing output has been modified slightly so
that functions are presented in a reasonable order with respect
to the namespaces that contain them.
10. Several example programs in the manual have been updated to their
modern POSIX equivalents.
11. A number of examples in doc/gawkinet.texi have been updated for
current times. Thanks to Juergen Kahrs for the work.
12. Handling of Infinity and NaN values has been improved.
13. There has been a general tightening up of the use of const and
of types.
14. The "no effect" lint warnings have been fixed up and now behave
more sanely.
15. The manual has been updated with much more information about what is
and is not a bug, and the changes in the gawk mailing lists.
16. The behavior of strongly-typed regexp constants when passed as the
third argument to sub() or gsub() has been clarified in the code and
in the manual.
17. Similar to item #4 above, division by zero is now fatal in MPFR
mode, as it is in regular mode.
18. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.0.1 to 5.1.0
---------------------------
1. The major version of the API is bumped to 3, something that should
have happened at the 5.0.0 release but didn't.
2. A number of memory leak issues have been fixed.
3. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.5.4, Texinfo 6.7, Gettext 0.20.1,
Automake 1.16.2.
4. The indexing in the manual has been thoroughly revised, in particular
making use of the facilities in Texinfo 6.7. That version (or newer)
must be used to format the manual.
5. MSYS2 is now supported out-of-the-box by configure.
6. Several bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1
---------------------------
1. A number of ChangeLog.1 files that were left out of the distribution
have been restored.
2. Multiple syntax errors should no longer be able to cause a core dump.
3. Sandbox mode now disallows assigning new filename values in ARGV that
were not there when gawk was invoked.
4. There are many small documentation improvements in the manual.
5. The new argument "no-ext" to --lint disables ``XXX is a gawk extension''
lint warnings.
6. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.4.
7. A number of bugs, some of them quite significant, have been fixed.
See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 4.2.1 to 5.0.0
---------------------------
1. Support for the POSIX standard %a and %A printf formats has been added.
2. The test infrastructure has been greatly improved, simplifying the
contents of test/Makefile.am and making it possible to generate
pc/Makefile.tst from test/Makefile.in.
3. The regex routines have been replaced with those from GNULIB, allowing
me to stop carrying forward decades of changes against the original
ones from GLIBC.
4. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.3, Automake 1.16.1, Gettext 0.19.8.1,
makeinfo 6.5.
5. The undocumented configure option and code that enabled the use of
non-English "letters" in identifiers is now gone.
6. The `--with-whiny-user-strftime' configuration option is now gone.
7. The code now makes some stronger assumptions about a C99 environment.
8. PROCINFO["platform"] yields a string indicating the platform for
which gawk was compiled.
9. Writing to elements of SYMTAB that are not variable names now
causes a fatal error. THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR.
10. 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.
11. Namespaces have been implemented! See the manual. One consequence of this
is that files included with -i, read with -f, and command line program
segments must all be self-contained syntactic units. E.g., you can no
longer do something like this:
gawk -e 'BEGIN {' -e 'print "hello" }'
12. Gawk now uses the locale settings for ignoring case in single byte
locales, instead of hardwiring in Latin-1.
13. A number of bugs, some of them quite significant, have been fixed.
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README:
This is GNU Awk 5.4.0. It is upwardly compatible with Brian Kernighan's
version of Unix awk. It is almost completely compliant with the
2024 POSIX 1003 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.)
This is a major release. See NEWS and ChangeLog for details.
Work to be done is described briefly in the TODO file, which is available
only in the 'master' branch in the Git repo.
Changes in this version are summarized in the NEWS file.
Read the file POSIX.STD for a discussion of issues where the standard
says one thing but gawk does something different.
To format the documentation with TeX, use at least version 2023-09-19.19
of texinfo.tex. There is a usable copy of texinfo.tex in the doc directory.
You must also use at least version 7.1 of texindex and of makeinfo
from the texinfo-7.1 distribution.
INSTALLATION:
Check whether there is a system-specific README file for your system under
the `README_d' directory. If there's something there that you should
have read and didn't, and you bug me about it, I'm going to yell at you.
See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
If you don't have Bison, use the awkgram.c file here. It was
generated with Bison, and has no proprietary code in it. (Note that
modifying awkgram.y without Bison is next to impossible. You might
want to get a copy of Bison from the FSF too.)
The build mechanics depend upon Bison. Also, gawk doesn't work correctly
with some versions of yacc, so just use Bison.
If you have an MS-DOS, or MS-Windows system, use the stuff in the `pc'
directory. Similarly, there is a separate directory for VMS.
Appendix B of ``GAWK: Effective Awk Programming'' discusses configuration
in detail. The configuration process is based on GNU Autoconf and
Automake.
After successful compilation, do `make check' to run the test suite.
There should be no output from the `cmp' invocations except in the
cases where there are small differences in floating point values, and
possibly in the case of strftime. There may be differences based on
installed (or not installed) locales and the quality of multibyte
character support on your system.
Several of the tests ignore errors on purpose; those are not a problem.
If there are other differences, please investigate and report the problem.
PRINTING THE MANUAL
The `doc' directory contains a recent version of texinfo.tex, which will
be necessary for printing the manual. Use `make dvi' to get a DVI file
from the manual. In the `doc' directory, use `make postscript' to get
PostScript versions of the manual, the man page, and the reference card.
Use `make pdf' to get PDF versions of the manuals, the man page and
the reference card.
BUG REPORTS AND FIXES (Un*x systems):
Please coordinate changes through Arnold Robbins. In particular, see
the section in the manual on reporting bugs. Note that comp.lang.awk
is about the worst place to post a gawk bug report. So too is use of
a web forum such as Stack Overflow. Please, use the mechanisms outlined
in the manual.
Bug reports should be submitted using the `gawkbug' script. This formats
a report and sends it to bug-gawk@gnu.org. This is a separate mailing
list at GNU Central. The advantage to using this address is that bug
reports are archived at GNU Central.
General non-bug questions should be sent to help-gawk@gnu.org.
Arnold Robbins
BUG REPORTS AND FIXES, non-Unix systems:
MS-Windows with MinGW:
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
OpenVMS:
John Malmberg
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===============================
There were too many files tracking different thoughts and ideas for
things to do, or consider doing. This file merges them into one. As
tasks are completed, they should be removed.
This file should exist only in the master branch or branches based off
of it for development, but not in the stable branch. This may require some
careful work with Git.
TODO
====
Roadmap for 6.0
---------------
Nuke regex and dfa and the additional files needed for them.
Get rid of lint-old. Old awk has been obsolete for close to 40
years now.
Get rid of the --persist option.
Get rid of the -r/--re-interval option(s).
Get rid of AWKNUM. Just use double.
Clean up obsolete bits in the extension API. This will
require incrementing the major number.
Eli Zaretskii suggests making codeset info available in the
extension API. Along similar lines, perhaps the API should
support access to the wide character version of a string.
Also mb_cur_max.
Minor Cleanups and Code Improvements
------------------------------------
Tzvetelin Katchov <katchov@gnu.org> points out the following:
- Clean up file and directory permissions to 0644 and 0755
across the board.
- Use consistent #! lines in awk scripts in the test suite.
- Double check uses of xxx:: targets in the test suite Makefile,
maybe only one colon is needed.
API:
??? #if !defined(GAWK) && !defined(GAWK_OMIT_CONVENIENCE_MACROS)
?? Add debugger commands to reference card
Look at function order within files.
Fully synchronize whitespace tests (for \s, \S in Unicode
environment) with those of GNU grep.
In the test suite, use grep -E if no egrep or egrep produces
a warning.
Minor New Features
------------------
Store the filename and line number where a variable is
first used.
Enable command line source text in the debugger.
Enhance extension/fork.c waitpid to allow the caller to specify
the options. And add an optional array argument to wait and
waitpid in which to return exit status information.
Consider relaxing the strictness of --posix.
Enhance --lint=invalid to apply in more places.
Suggested by Jannick:
* It is possible to make gawk look for a file with extension name
plus API version number(s) in case a shared lib with the expected
basename cannot be found? This would help have extension versions
compiled against different API versions in one single directory
and make gawk pick the extension with the right API version.
Major New Features
------------------
Think about how to generalize indirect access. Manuel Collado
suggests things like
foo = 5
@"foo" += 4
Also needed:
Indirect through array elements, not just scalar variables
Rework management of array index storage. (Partially DONE.)
Consider using an atom table for all string array indices.
DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages.
Things To Think About That May Never Happen
-------------------------------------------
Consider making shadowed variables a warning and not
a fatal warning when --lint=fatal.
Similar for extra parameters in a function call.
Look at code coverage tools, like S2E: https://s2e.epfl.ch/
Try running with diehard. See http://www.diehard-software.org,
https://github.com/emeryberger/DieHard
Add a lint check if the return value of a function is used but
the function did not supply a value.
Things That We Decided We Will Never Do
=======================================
Add ability to do decimal arithmetic.
Review the bash source script for working with shared libraries in
order to nuke the use of libtool. [ Partially started in the
dead-branches/nolibtool branch. ]
Include a sample rpm spec file in a new packaging subdirectory.
Patch lexer for @include and @load to make quotes optional.
Add an optional base to strtonum, allowing 2-36.
Optional third argument for index indicating where to start the
search.
See if something like b = a "" can be optimized to not do
a concatenation, but instead just set STRCUR on a.
(Tried this; the type of b doesn't come out correctly.)
Consider moving var_value info into Node_var itself to reduce
memory usage. This would break all uses of get_lhs in the
code. It's too sweeping a change.
Add macros for working with flags instead of using & and |
directly.
Fix regular field splitting to use FPAT algorithm.
Note: Looked at this. Not sure it's with the trouble:
If it ain't broke...
Scope IDs for IPv6 addresses
Gnulib
Make FIELDWIDTHS be an array?
"Do an optimization pass over parse tree?"
This isn't relevant now that we are using a byte code engine.
"Consider integrating Fred Fish's DBUG library into gawk."
I did this once as an experiment. But I don't see a lot of value
to this at this stage of the development. Stepping through things
in a debugger is generally enough. Also, I would have to try to
track down the latest version of this.
"Make awk '/foo/' files... run at egrep speeds" (How?)
This has been on the list since the early days (gawk 1.x or early
2.x). But I am not sure how to really do this, nor have I done
timings, nor does there seem to be any real demand for this.
Change from dlopen to using the libltdl library (i.e. lt_dlopen).
This may support more platforms. If we move off of libtool
then this is the wrong direction.
A RECLEN variable for fixed-length record input. PROCINFO["RS"]
would be "RS" or "RECLEN" depending upon what's in use.
There is a reclen extension in gawkextlib. That's good enough.
Rewrite in C++.
Consider making gawk output +nan for NaN values so that it
will accept its own output as input.
NOTE: Investigated this. GLIBC formats NaN as '-nan'
and -NaN as 'nan'. Dealing with this is not simple.
Gawk already produces +nan and -nan for NaN values, it's just
that the sign may not always be what one expects.