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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.

Sep 17, 1987:
    Error-message printer had printf(s) instead of
    printf("%s",s);  got core dumps when the message
    included a %.

Oct xx, 1987:
    Reluctantly added toupper and tolower functions.
    Subject to rescinding without notice.

Dec 2, 1987:
    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.

Mar 25, 1988:
    main.c fixed to recognize -- as terminator of command-
    line options.  Illegal options flagged.
    Error reporting slightly cleaned up.

May 10, 1988:
    Fixed lib.c to permit _ in commandline variable names.

May 22, 1988:
    Removed limit on depth of function calls.

May 28, 1988:
    srand returns seed value it's using.
    see 1/18/90

June 1, 1988:
    check error status on close

July 2, 1988:
    performance bug in b.c/cgoto(): not freeing some sets of states.
    partial fix only right now, and the number of states increased
    to make it less obvious.

July 2, 1988:
    flush stdout before opening file or pipe

July 24, 1988:
    fixed egregious error in toupper/tolower functions.
    still subject to rescinding, however.

Aug 23, 1988:
    setting FILENAME in BEGIN caused core dump, apparently
    because it was freeing space not allocated by malloc.

Sep 30, 1988:
    Now guarantees to evaluate all arguments of built-in
    functions, as in C;  the appearance is that arguments
    are evaluated before the function is called.  Places
    affected are sub (gsub was ok), substr, printf, and
    all the built-in arithmetic functions in bltin().
    A warning is generated if a bltin() is called with
    the wrong number of arguments.

    This requires changing makeprof on p167 of the book.

Oct 12, 1988:
    Fixed bug in call() that freed local arrays twice.

    Fixed to handle deletion of non-existent array right;
    complains about attempt to delete non-array element.

Oct 20, 1988:
    Fixed %c:  if expr is numeric, use numeric value;
    otherwise print 1st char of string value.  still
    doesn't work if the value is 0 -- won't print \0.

    Added a few more checks for running out of malloc.

Oct 30, 1988:
    Fixed bug in call() that failed to recover storage.

    A warning is now generated if there are more arguments
    in the call than in the definition (in lieu of fixing
    another storage leak).

Nov 27, 1988:
    With fear and trembling, modified the grammar to permit
    multiple pattern-action statements on one line without
    an explicit separator.  By definition, this capitulation
    to the ghost of ancient implementations remains undefined
    and thus subject to change without notice or apology.
    DO NOT COUNT ON IT.

Dec 7, 1988:
    Added a bit of code to error printing to avoid printing nulls.
    (Not clear that it actually would.)

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.

Jan 9, 1989:
    Fixed bug that caused tempcell list to contain a duplicate.
    The fix is kludgy.

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.

Apr 26, 1989:
    Debugging output now includes a version date,
    if one compiles it into the source each time.

Apr 27, 1989:
    Line number now accumulated correctly for comment lines.

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)

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 23, 1989:
    add newline to usage message.

Jul 10, 1989:
    fixed ref-thru-zero bug in environment code in tran.c

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.

Aug 2, 1989:
    restored -F (space) separator

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 24, 1989:
    removed redundant relational tests against nullnode if parse
    tree already had a relational at that point.

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.

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.

Jan 5, 1990:
    fix potential problem in tran.c -- something was freed,
    then used in freesymtab.

Jan 18, 1990:
    srand now returns previous seed value (0 to start).

Feb 9, 1990:
    fixed null pointer dereference bug in main.c:  -F[nothing].  sigh.

    restored srand behavior:  it returns the current seed.

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.

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!

Aug 24, 1990:
    changed NCHARS to 256 to handle 8-bit characters in strings
    presented to match(), etc.

Oct 8, 1990:
    fixed horrible bug:  types and values were not preserved in
    some kinds of self-assignment. (in assign().)

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 29, 1990:
    fixed sleazy buggy code in lib.c that looked (incorrectly) for
    too long input lines.

Nov 2, 1990:
    fixed sleazy test for integrality in getsval;  use modf.

Jan 11, 1991:
    failed to set numeric state on $0 in cmd|getline context in run.c.

Jan 28, 1991:
    awk -f - reads the program from stdin.

Feb 10, 1991:
    check error status on all writes, to avoid banging on full disks.

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.

May 13, 1991:
    removed extra arg on gettemp, tempfree.  minor error message rewording.

Jun 2, 1991:
    better defense against very long printf strings.
    made break and continue illegal outside of loops.

Jun 30, 1991:
    better test for detecting too-long output record.

Jul 21, 1991:
    fixed so that in self-assignment like $1=$1, side effects
    like recomputing $0 take place.  (this is getting subtle.)

Jul 27, 1991:
    allow newline after ; in for statements.

Aug 18, 1991:
    enforce variable name syntax for commandline variables: has to
    start with letter or _.

Sep 24, 1991:
    increased buffer in gsub.  a very crude fix to a general problem.
    and again on Sep 26.

Nov 12, 1991:
    cranked up some fixed-size arrays in b.c, and added a test for
    overflow in penter.  thanks to mark larsen.

Nov 19, 1991:
    use RAND_MAX instead of literal in builtin().

Nov 30, 1991:
    fixed storage leak in freefa, failing to recover [N]CCL.
    thanks to Bill Jones ([e-mail])

Dec 2, 1991:
    die-casting time:  converted to ansi C, installed that.

Feb 20, 1992:
    recompile after abortive changes;  should be unchanged.

Apr 12, 1992:
    added explicit check for /dev/std(in,out,err) in redirection.
    unlike gawk, no /dev/fd/n yet.

    added fflush(file/pipe) builtin.  hard to test satisfactorily.
    not posix.

Apr 24, 1992:
    remove redundant close of stdin when using -f -.

    got rid of core dump with -d; awk -d just prints date.

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.

Nov 28, 1992:
    deleted yyunput and yyoutput from proto.h;
    different versions of lex give these different declarations.

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.

Feb 2, 1994:
    changed error() to print line number as %d, not %g.

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.