X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Gawk 4.0.0 uploaded. Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 132 Message-ID: References: <201107202024 DOT p6KKOe1T024495 AT delorie DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1311216097 30486 127.0.0.1 (21 Jul 2011 02:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: v7g2000vbk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 5580 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p6L302R2013757 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, On Jul 21, 4:17 am, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote: > > This is a port of GNU Gawk 4.0.0 to MSDOS/DJGPP. > >   GNU Gawk is an interpreter for text scanning and processing language named >   Awk. It is specifically suited for programs that process text files one line >   at a time, but can also be used for much more complex tasks. Thanks! BTW, here's what changed (esp. re: #17): Changes from 3.1.8 to 4.0.0 --------------------------- 1. The special files /dev/pid, /dev/ppid, /dev/pgrpid and /dev/user are now completely gone. Use PROCINFO instead. 2. The POSIX 2008 behavior for `sub' and `gsub' are now the default. THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!! 3. The \s and \S escape sequences are now recognized in regular expressions. 4. The split() function accepts an optional fourth argument which is an array to hold the values of the separators. 5. The new -b / --characters-as-bytes option means "hands off my data"; gawk won't try to treat input as a multibyte string. 6. There is a new --sandbox option; see the doc. 7. Indirect function calls are now available. 8. Interval expressions are now part of default regular expressions for GNU Awk syntax. 9. --gen-po is now correctly named --gen-pot. 10. switch / case is now enabled by default. There's no longer a need for a configure-time option. 11. Gawk now supports BEGINFILE and ENDFILE. See the doc for details. 12. Directories named on the command line now produce a warning, not a fatal error, unless --posix or --traditional. 13. The new FPAT variable allows you to specify a regexp that matches the fields, instead of matching the field separator. The new patsplit() function gives the same capability for splitting. 14. All long options now have short options, for use in `#!' scripts. 15. Support for IPv6 is added via the /inet6/... special file. / inet4/... forces IPv4 and /inet chooses the system default (probably IPv4). 16. Added a warning for /[:space:]/ that should be /[[:space:]]/. 17. Merged with John Haque's byte code internals. Adds dgawk debugger and possibly improved performance. 18. `break' and `continue' are no longer valid outside a loop, even with --traditional. 19. POSIX character classes work with --traditional (BWK awk supports them). 20. Nuked redundant --compat, --copyleft, and --usage long options. 21. Arrays of arrays added. See the doc. 22. Per the GNU Coding Standards, dynamic extensions must now define a global symbol indicating that they are GPL-compatible. See the documentation and example extensions. THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!! 23. In POSIX mode, string comparisons use strcoll/wcscoll. THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!! 24. The option for raw sockets was removed, since it was never implemented. 25. Gawk now treats ranges of the form [d-h] as if they were in the C locale, no matter what kind of regexp is being used, and even if --posix. The latest POSIX standard allows this, and the documentation has been updated. Maybe this will stop all the questions about [a-z] matching uppercase letters. THIS CHANGES BEHAVIOR!!!! 26. PROCINFO["strftime"] now holds the default format for strftime(). 27. Updated to latest infrastructure: Autoconf 2.68, Automake 1.11.1, Gettext 0.18.1, Bison 2.5. 28. Many code cleanups. Removed code for many old, unsupported systems: - Atari - Amiga - BeOS - Cray - MIPS RiscOS - MS-DOS with Microsoft Compiler - MS-Windows with Microsoft Compiler - NeXT - SunOS 3.x, Sun 386 (Road Runner) - Tandem (non-POSIX) - Prestandard VAX C compiler for VAX/VMS - Probably others that I've forgotten 29. If PROCINFO["sorted_in"] exists, for(iggy in foo) loops sort the indices before looping over them. The value of this element provides control over how the indices are sorted before the loop traversal starts. See the manual. 30. A new isarray() function exists to distinguish if an item is an array or not, to make it possible to traverse multidimensional arrays. 31. asort() and asorti() take a third argument specifying how to sort. See the doc.