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diff --git a/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES b/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES index cfd60e4..e7095ff 100644 --- a/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES +++ b/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES @@ -25,6 +25,37 @@ THIS SOFTWARE. This file lists all bug fixes, changes, etc., made since the AWK book was sent to the printers in August, 1987. +Apr 24, 2005: + modified lib.c so that values of $0 et al are preserved in the END + block, apparently as required by posix. thanks to havard eidnes + for the report and code. + +Jan 14, 2005: + fixed infinite loop in parsing, originally found by brian tsang. + thanks to arnold robbins for a suggestion that started me + rethinking it. + +Dec 31, 2004: + prevent overflow of -f array in main, head off potential error in + call of SYNTAX(), test malloc return in lib.c, all with thanks to + todd miller. + +Dec 22, 2004: + cranked up size of NCHARS; coverity thinks it can be overrun with + smaller size, and i think that's right. added some assertions to b.c + to catch places where it might overrun. the RE code is still fragile. + +Dec 5, 2004: + fixed a couple of overflow problems with ridiculous field numbers: + e.g., print $(2^32-1). thanks to ruslan ermilov, giorgos keramidas + and david o'brien at freebsd.org for patches. this really should + be re-done from scratch. + +Nov 21, 2004: + fixed another 25-year-old RE bug, in split. it's another failure + to (re-)initialize. thanks to steve fisher for spotting this and + providing a good test case. + Nov 22, 2003: fixed a bug in regular expressions that dates (so help me) from 1977; it's been there from the beginning. an anchored longest match that @@ -222,7 +253,7 @@ Apr 21, 2000: jon bentley for the test case that found it. added test in envinit to catch environment "variables" with - names begining with '='; thanks to Berend Hasselman. + names beginning with '='; thanks to Berend Hasselman. Jul 28, 1999: added test in defn() to catch function foo(foo), which @@ -459,7 +490,7 @@ May 2, 1996: some awful behaviors.) Apr 29, 1996: - replaced uchar by uschar everwhere; apparently some compilers + replaced uchar by uschar everywhere; apparently some compilers usurp this name and this causes conflicts. fixed call to time in run.c (bltin); arg is time_t *. |
