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diff --git a/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES b/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES index 296a2c9..cfd60e4 100644 --- a/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES +++ b/contrib/one-true-awk/FIXES @@ -25,6 +25,24 @@ THIS SOFTWARE. This file lists all bug fixes, changes, etc., made since the AWK book was sent to the printers in August, 1987. +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 + was longer than the number of states triggered a failure to initialize + the machine properly. many thanks to moinak ghosh for not only finding + this one but for providing a fix, in some of the most mysterious + code known to man. + + fixed a storage leak in call() that appears to have been there since + 1983 or so -- a function without an explicit return that assigns a + string to a parameter leaked a Cell. thanks to moinak ghosh for + spotting this very subtle one. + +Jul 31, 2003: + fixed, thanks to andrey chernov and ruslan ermilov, a bug in lex.c + that mis-handled the character 255 in input. (it was being compared + to EOF with a signed comparison.) + Jul 29, 2003: fixed (i think) the long-standing botch that included the beginning of line state ^ for RE's in the set of valid characters; this led to a |
