m4-commit
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Changes to m4/NEWS,v


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Changes to m4/NEWS,v
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:48:12 +0000

CVSROOT:        /sources/m4
Module name:    m4
Changes by:     Eric Blake <ericb>      07/07/10 20:48:11

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.43
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -b -r1.43 -r1.44
--- NEWS        31 May 2007 13:26:38 -0000      1.43
+++ NEWS        10 Jul 2007 20:48:07 -0000      1.44
@@ -201,6 +201,41 @@
 
 *** Improvements made in the 1.4.x stable series have been incorporated.
 
+* Version 1.4.10 - 09 Jul 2007, by Eric Blake  (CVS version 1.4.9c)
+
+** Upgrade from GPL version 2 to GPL version 3 or later.
+
+** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.
+
+** Avoid undefined behavior introduced in 1.4.9b in the `format' builtin
+   when handling %c.  However, this area of code has never been documented,
+   and currently does not match the POSIX behavior of printf(1), so it may
+   have further changes in the next version.
+
+* Version 1.4.9b - 29 May 2007, by Eric Blake  (CVS version 1.4.9a)
+
+** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.9 in the `eval' builtin when performing
+   division.
+
+** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.8 in the `-F' option that made it
+   impossible to freeze more than 512 kibibytes of diverted text.
+
+** The synclines option `-s' no longer generates sync lines in the middle of
+   multiline comments or quoted strings.
+
+** Work around a number of corner-case POSIX compliance bugs in various
+   broken stdio libraries.  In particular, the `syscmd' builtin behaves
+   more predictably when stdin is seekable.
+
+** The `format' builtin now understands formats such as %a, %A, and %'hhd,
+   and works around a number of platform printf bugs.  Furthermore, the
+   sequence format(%*.*d,-1,-1,1) no longer outputs random data.  However,
+   some non-compliant platforms such as mingw still have known bugs in
+   strtod that may cause testsuite failures.
+
+** The testsuite is improved to also run gnulib portability tests for the
+   features that M4 imports from gnulib.
+
 * Version 1.4.9 - 23 Mar 2007, by Eric Blake  (CVS version 1.4.8c)
 
 ** Minor documentation and portability cleanups.




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]