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Aleksey Cheusov 7b0bcdb0ec Import mawk-1.3.3.20090820 as wip/mawk.
Mike Brennan's awk clone.
It's fast (faster than gawk), and relatively small.
After 13 years of stagnation, mawk now has a new maintainer. Lots of bug fixes.
Most pkgsrc patches were applied.

  Changes by Thomas E Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

  20090820
	minor portability/standards fixes for examples/hical

	add WHINY_USERS sorted-array feature, for compatibility with gawk
	(patch by Aharon Robbins).

	correct lower-limit for d_to_U() function, which broke conversion of
	zero in "%x" format, added in fix for Debian #303825 (report by Masami
	Hiramatsu).

	modify "%s" and "%c" formatting in printf/sprintf commands to ensure
	that "%02s" does not do zero-padding, for standards conformance
	(discussion with Aharon Robbins, Mike Brennan, prompted by Debian
	#339799).

  20090728
	add fallback definitions for GCC_NORETURN and GCC_UNUSED to build with
	non-gcc compilers (report by Jan Wells).

  20090727
	add check/fix to prevent gsub from recurring to modify on a substring
	of the current line when the regular expression is anchored to the
	beginning of the line; fixes gawk's anchgsub testcase.

	add check for implicit concatenation mistaken for exponent; fixes
	gawk's hex testcase.

	add character-classes to built-in regular expressions.

	add 8-bit locale support

  20090726
	improve configure checks for MAX__UINT.

	add a check for infinite loop in REmatch(), to work with gawk's noloop1
	testcase.

	modify logic to allow setting RS to an explicit null character, e.g.,
		RS="\0"
	(Ubuntu #400409). 

	modify workaround for (incorrect) scripts which use a zero-parameter
	for substr to ensure the overall length of the result stays the same.
	For example, from makewhatis:
		filename_no_gz = substr(filename, 0, RSTART - 1);

	move regular-expression files into main directory to simplify building
	using configure --srcdir and VPATH.

	modify internal functions for gsub() to handle a case from makewhatis
	script from man 1.6f which substitutes embedded zero bytes to a
	different value (report by Gabor Z Papp).

	change default for configure --with-builtin-regex to prefer the
	builtin regular expressions.  They are incomplete, but POSIX regular
	expressions cannot match nulls embedded in strings.

	require standard C compiler; converted to ANSI C.

	rename #define'd SV_SIGINFO to MAWK_SV_SIGINFO to avoid predefined
	name on Mac OS X (report on comp.lang.awk).

	revise configure script to use conventional scheme for generating
	config.h

  20090721
	port to cygwin, modifying test-script to work with executable-suffix
	and fp-exception code to allow const in declaration.

  20090712
	update patch-date.

	fix Debian #127293 "mawk does not understand unescaped '/' in character
	classes", noting that gawk 3.1.6 also has problems with this area.

	drop support for varargs; use stdarg only.

	add tags rule to makefile.

	rename configure option "--with-local-regexp" to "--with-builtin-regex"

	add build-fix from NetBSD port:  enable vax FP support when
	defined(__vax__) as well as BSD43_VAX.  from ragge.

	add configure --disable-echo option

	identify updated files with "MawkId" keywords, retaining old log
	comments for reference.  Ongoing changes are recorded here.

	update maintainer email address.

  20090711
	use conventional install/uninstall rules in makefile.

	add install-sh script, mkdirs.sh, config.guess and config.sub

	add $DESTDIR support to makefile

	add uninstall make-target

	add configure --enable-warnings option (fixed some warnings...)

	update configure script to autoconf 2.52 to permit cross-compiles.

	drop config.user file; replace with conventional autoconf --prefix, etc.

	fill-in CA_REC.type in two places in parse.y which weren't initialized.

	fix Debian #38353 (absent expression on last part of "for" statement
	caused core-dump).

	fix Debian #303825 (printf %x clamps numbers to signed range rather
	than unsigned range).

	apply fix from Debian #355966 (null-pointer check in is_string_split())

	apply fix from Debian #391051 (limit-check in scan.c)

  20090709
	add patch from Aleksey Cheusov for external regexp libraries
	(originally comp.lang.awk June 15 2005, also cited in Debian #355442
	March 6, 2006).

  20090705
	fixes to build on BeOS (if LIBS is set to -lroot), and QNX (redefinition
	of setmode).

  20080909
	fix gcc 4.3.1 -Wall warnings

	transform mawk.ac.m4 to aclocal.m4, renaming macros to use "CF_" or
	"CF_MAWK_" prefixes depending on their reusability.  Modified macros
	to use quoting consistent with recent autoconf versions.

	regenerate configure with autoconf version 2.13.20030927

	regenerate parse.c with byacc - 1.9 20080827

	ifdef'd prototypes in nstd.h which belong to stdlib.h, string.h to
	use standard C by default.

	source-in Debian patches 01-08 (see below).  Changes for 20080909 fix
	Debian #496980 as well.

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Debian patches:

  (Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:11:11 +0200)

  08_fix-for-gcc3.3
	Debian #195371

  (James Troup <james@nocrew.org>  Fri, 30 May 2003 15:24:50 +0100)

  07_mawktest-check-devfull
	Debian #51875

  06_parse.y-semicolons
	Debian #170973

  05_-Wall-fixes

  04_mawk.1-fix-pi
	Debian #103699

  03_read-and-close-redefinition
	Debian #104124

  02_fix-examples
	Debian #36011

  01_error-on-full-fs
	Debian #28249
	Debian #4293
2009-09-12 12:08:13 +00:00

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Mike Brennan's awk clone.
It's fast (faster than gawk), and relatively small.