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commit 7f2468bfb5cb4a7998635e55e8e82db3718fe177
Author: Arnold D. Robbins <address@hidden>
Date: Tue Apr 2 22:35:40 2013 +0300
Start a cleanup pass on the manual.
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index a41d0e0..4371cbf 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-04-02 Arnold D. Robbins <address@hidden>
+
+ * gawk.texi: Start a simple cleanup pass before the release.
+
2013-03-15 Arnold D. Robbins <address@hidden>
* gawk.texi: Update URL for texinfo, fix a typo.
diff --git a/doc/gawk.info b/doc/gawk.info
index 5119236..ff07b9f 100644
--- a/doc/gawk.info
+++ b/doc/gawk.info
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ those systems has been removed.)
---------- Footnotes ----------
- (1) The 2008 POSIX standard can be found online at
+ (1) The 2008 POSIX standard is online at
`http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/'.
(2) These commands are available on POSIX-compliant systems, as well
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ History of `awk' and `gawk'
After eight years, add another part `egrep' and two more parts C.
Document very well and release.
- The name `awk' comes from the initials of its designers: Alfred V.
+The name `awk' comes from the initials of its designers: Alfred V.
Aho, Peter J. Weinberger and Brian W. Kernighan. The original version
of `awk' was written in 1977 at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1985, a new
version made the programming language more powerful, introducing
@@ -1154,9 +1154,12 @@ Guide'.
This edition maintains the basic structure of the previous editions.
For Edition 4.0, the content has been thoroughly reviewed and updated.
-All references to versions prior to 4.0 have been removed. Of
+All references to `gawk' versions prior to 4.0 have been removed. Of
significant note for this edition is *note Debugger::.
+ For edition 4.1, the content has been reorganized into parts, and
+the major new addition is *note Dynamic Extensions::.
+
`GAWK: Effective AWK Programming' will undoubtedly continue to
evolve. An electronic version comes with the `gawk' distribution from
the FSF. If you find an error in this Info file, please report it!
@@ -1256,22 +1259,39 @@ acknowledgements:
Associates contributed significant editorial help for this Info
file for the 3.1 release of `gawk'.
- Dr. Nelson Beebe, Andreas Buening, Antonio Colombo, Stephen Davies,
-Scott Deifik, John H. DuBois III, Darrel Hankerson, Michal Jaegermann,
-Ju"rgen Kahrs, Dave Pitts, Stepan Kasal, Pat Rankin, Andrew Schorr,
-Corinna Vinschen, Anders Wallin, and Eli Zaretskii (in alphabetical
-order) make up the current `gawk' "crack portability team." Without
-their hard work and help, `gawk' would not be nearly the fine program
-it is today. It has been and continues to be a pleasure working with
-this team of fine people.
-
- John Haque contributed the modifications to convert `gawk' into a
-byte-code interpreter, including the debugger, and the additional
-modifications for support of arbitrary precision arithmetic. Stephen
-Davies contributed to the effort to bring the byte-code changes into
-the mainstream code base. Efraim Yawitz contributed the initial text
-of *note Debugger::. John Haque contributed the initial text of *note
-Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic::.
+ Dr. Nelson Beebe, Andreas Buening, Dr. Manuel Collado, Antonio
+Colombo, Stephen Davies, Scott Deifik, Akim Demaille, Darrel Hankerson,
+Michal Jaegermann, Ju"rgen Kahrs, Stepan Kasal, John Malmberg, Dave
+Pitts, Chet Ramey, Pat Rankin, Andrew Schorr, Corinna Vinschen, Anders
+Wallin, and Eli Zaretskii (in alphabetical order) make up the current
+`gawk' "crack portability team." Without their hard work and help,
+`gawk' would not be nearly the fine program it is today. It has been
+and continues to be a pleasure working with this team of fine people.
+
+ Notable code and documentation contributions were made by the
+following people:
+
+ * John Haque made the followoing contributions:
+
+ - The modifications to convert `gawk' into a byte-code
+ interpreter, including the debugger.
+
+ - The additional modifications for support of arbitrary
+ precision arithmetic.
+
+ - The initial text of *note Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic::.
+
+ - The work to merge the three versions of `gawk' into one, for
+ the 4.1 release.
+
+ * Stephen Davies contributed to the effort to bring the byte-code
+ changes into the mainstream code base.
+
+ * Efraim Yawitz contributed the initial text of *note Debugger::.
+
+ * The development of the extension API first released with `gawk'
+ 4.1 was driven primarily by Arnold Robbins and Andrew Schorr, with
+ notable contributions from the rest of the development team.
I would like to thank Brian Kernighan for invaluable assistance
during the testing and debugging of `gawk', and for ongoing help and
@@ -1291,7 +1311,7 @@ to take advantage of those opportunities.
Arnold Robbins
Nof Ayalon
ISRAEL
-March, 2011
+April, 2013
File: gawk.info, Node: Getting Started, Next: Invoking Gawk, Prev: Preface,
Up: Top
@@ -2320,10 +2340,10 @@ The following list describes options mandated by the
POSIX standard:
there are two important differences. First, when `-i' is used,
the program source will not be loaded if it has been previously
loaded, whereas the `-f' will always load the file. Second,
- because this option is intended to be used with code libraries, the
- `awk' command does not recognize such files as constituting main
- program input. Thus, after processing an `-i' argument, we still
- expect to find the main source code via the `-f' option or on the
+ because this option is intended to be used with code libraries,
+ `gawk' does not recognize such files as constituting main program
+ input. Thus, after processing an `-i' argument, `gawk' still
+ expects to find the main source code via the `-f' option or on the
command-line.
`-v VAR=VAL'
@@ -2816,7 +2836,9 @@ variable, but it is used to search for shared libraries
specified with
the `-l' option rather than for source files. If the library is not
found, the path is searched again after adding the appropriate shared
library suffix for the platform. For example, on GNU/Linux systems,
-the suffix `.so' is used.
+the suffix `.so' is used. The search path specified is also used for
+libraries loaded via the address@hidden' keyword (*note Loading Shared
+Libraries::).
File: gawk.info, Node: Other Environment Variables, Prev: AWKLIBPATH
Variable, Up: Environment Variables
@@ -3028,6 +3050,9 @@ For command-line usage, the `-l' option is more
convenient, but address@hidden'
is useful for embedding inside an `awk' source file that requires
access to a shared library.
+ *note Dynamic Extensions::, describes how to write extensions (in C
+or C++) that can be loaded with either address@hidden' or the `-l' option.
+
File: gawk.info, Node: Obsolete, Next: Undocumented, Prev: Loading Shared
Libraries, Up: Invoking Gawk
@@ -29814,6 +29839,7 @@ Index
* close() function, two-way pipes and: Two-way I/O. (line 77)
* Close, Diane <1>: Contributors. (line 21)
* Close, Diane: Manual History. (line 41)
+* Collado, Manuel: Acknowledgments. (line 60)
* collating elements: Bracket Expressions. (line 69)
* collating symbols: Bracket Expressions. (line 76)
* Colombo, Antonio: Acknowledgments. (line 60)
@@ -30098,6 +30124,7 @@ Index
* delete statement: Delete. (line 6)
* deleting elements in arrays: Delete. (line 6)
* deleting entire arrays: Delete. (line 39)
+* Demaille, Akim: Acknowledgments. (line 60)
* differences between gawk and awk: String Functions. (line 196)
* differences in awk and gawk, ARGC/ARGV variables: ARGC and ARGV.
(line 88)
@@ -30192,7 +30219,6 @@ Index
* double quote ("), regexp constants: Computed Regexps. (line 28)
* down debugger command: Execution Stack. (line 21)
* Drepper, Ulrich: Acknowledgments. (line 52)
-* DuBois, John: Acknowledgments. (line 60)
* dump debugger command: Miscellaneous Debugger Commands.
(line 9)
* dupword.awk program: Dupword Program. (line 31)
@@ -30518,7 +30544,7 @@ Index
(line 47)
* functions, user-defined, next/nextfile statements and: Next Statement.
(line 45)
-* G-d: Acknowledgments. (line 83)
+* G-d: Acknowledgments. (line 100)
* Garfinkle, Scott: Contributors. (line 35)
* gawk program, dynamic profiling: Profiling. (line 171)
* gawk, ARGIND variable in: Other Arguments. (line 12)
@@ -30823,7 +30849,7 @@ Index
* Kernighan, Brian <3>: Contributors. (line 12)
* Kernighan, Brian <4>: BTL. (line 6)
* Kernighan, Brian <5>: Concatenation. (line 6)
-* Kernighan, Brian <6>: Acknowledgments. (line 77)
+* Kernighan, Brian <6>: Acknowledgments. (line 94)
* Kernighan, Brian <7>: Conventions. (line 34)
* Kernighan, Brian: History. (line 17)
* kill command, dynamic profiling: Profiling. (line 180)
@@ -30931,6 +30957,7 @@ Index
* lvalues/rvalues: Assignment Ops. (line 32)
* mailing labels, printing: Labels Program. (line 6)
* mailing list, GNITS: Acknowledgments. (line 52)
+* Malmberg, John: Acknowledgments. (line 60)
* mark parity: Ordinal Functions. (line 45)
* marked string extraction (internationalization): String Extraction.
(line 6)
@@ -31343,6 +31370,7 @@ Index
* r debugger command (alias for run): Debugger Execution Control.
(line 62)
* Rakitzis, Byron: History Sorting. (line 25)
+* Ramey, Chet: Acknowledgments. (line 60)
* rand() function: Numeric Functions. (line 34)
* random numbers, Cliff: Cliff Random Function.
(line 6)
@@ -31449,11 +31477,11 @@ Index
* Robbins, Arnold: Command Line Field Separator.
(line 80)
* Robbins, Bill: Getline/Pipe. (line 40)
-* Robbins, Harry: Acknowledgments. (line 83)
-* Robbins, Jean: Acknowledgments. (line 83)
+* Robbins, Harry: Acknowledgments. (line 100)
+* Robbins, Jean: Acknowledgments. (line 100)
* Robbins, Miriam <1>: Passwd Functions. (line 90)
* Robbins, Miriam <2>: Getline/Pipe. (line 40)
-* Robbins, Miriam: Acknowledgments. (line 83)
+* Robbins, Miriam: Acknowledgments. (line 100)
* Rommel, Kai Uwe: Contributors. (line 43)
* round() user-defined function: Round Function. (line 16)
* rounding mode, floating-point: Rounding Mode. (line 6)
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi
index 656a4bc..38f4855 100644
--- a/doc/gawk.texi
+++ b/doc/gawk.texi
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
@c applies to and all the info about who's publishing this edition
@c These apply across the board.
address@hidden UPDATE-MONTH January, 2013
address@hidden UPDATE-MONTH April, 2013
@set VERSION 4.0
@set PATCHLEVEL 2
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ The GNU implementation of @command{awk} is called
@command{gawk}; if you
invoke it with the proper options or environment variables
(@pxref{Options}), it is fully
compatible with
-the address@hidden 2008 POSIX standard can be found online at
+the address@hidden 2008 POSIX standard is online at
@url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/}.}
specification of the @command{awk} language
and with the Unix version of @command{awk} maintained
@@ -1101,7 +1101,8 @@ has been removed.)
@unnumberedsec History of @command{awk} and @command{gawk}
@cindex recipe for a programming language
@cindex programming language, recipe for
address@hidden Recipe For A Programming Language
address@hidden
address@hidden @b{Recipe For A Programming Language}
@multitable {2 parts} {1 part @code{egrep}} {1 part @code{snobol}}
@item @tab 1 part @code{egrep} @tab 1 part @code{snobol}
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After eight years, add another part @code{egrep} and two
more parts C. Document very well and release.
@end quotation
address@hidden cartouche
@cindex Aho, Alfred
@cindex Weinberger, Peter
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This edition maintains the basic structure of the previous editions.
For Edition 4.0, the content has been thoroughly reviewed
-and updated. All references to versions prior to 4.0 have been
+and updated. All references to @command{gawk} versions prior to 4.0 have been
removed.
Of significant note for this edition is @ref{Debugger}.
+For edition 4.1, the content has been reorganized into parts,
+and the major new addition is @ref{Dynamic Extensions}.
+
@address@hidden will undoubtedly continue to evolve.
An electronic version
comes with the @command{gawk} distribution from the FSF.
@@ -1730,32 +1735,39 @@ significant editorial help for this @value{DOCUMENT}
for the
@cindex Beebe, Nelson
@cindex Buening, Andreas
address@hidden Collado, Manuel
@cindex Colombo, Antonio
@cindex Davies, Stephen
@cindex Deifik, Scott
address@hidden DuBois, John
address@hidden Demaille, Akim
@cindex Hankerson, Darrel
@cindex Haque, John
@cindex Jaegermann, Michal
@cindex Kahrs, J@"urgen
@cindex Kasal, Stepan
address@hidden Malmberg, John
@cindex Pitts, Dave
address@hidden Ramey, Chet
@cindex Rankin, Pat
@cindex Schorr, Andrew
@cindex Vinschen, Corinna
@cindex Wallin, Anders
@cindex Zaretskii, Eli
+
Dr.@: Nelson Beebe,
Andreas Buening,
+Dr.@: Manuel Collado,
Antonio Colombo,
Stephen Davies,
Scott Deifik,
-John H. DuBois III,
+Akim Demaille,
Darrel Hankerson,
Michal Jaegermann,
J@"urgen Kahrs,
-Dave Pitts,
Stepan Kasal,
+John Malmberg,
+Dave Pitts,
+Chet Ramey,
Pat Rankin,
Andrew Schorr,
Corinna Vinschen,
@@ -1768,14 +1780,44 @@ help, @command{gawk} would not be nearly the fine
program it is today. It
has been and continues to be a pleasure working with this team of fine
people.
-John Haque contributed the modifications to convert @command{gawk}
-into a byte-code interpreter, including the debugger, and the
-additional modifications for support of arbitrary precision arithmetic.
+Notable code and documentation contributions were made by the
+following people:
+
address@hidden @bullet
address@hidden
+John Haque made the followoing contributions:
+
address@hidden @minus
address@hidden
+The modifications to convert @command{gawk}
+into a byte-code interpreter, including the debugger.
+
address@hidden
+The additional modifications for support of arbitrary precision arithmetic.
+
address@hidden
+The initial text of
address@hidden Precision Arithmetic}.
+
address@hidden
+The work to merge the three versions of @command{gawk}
+into one, for the 4.1 release.
address@hidden itemize
+
address@hidden
Stephen Davies
contributed to the effort to bring the byte-code changes into the mainstream
code base.
+
address@hidden
Efraim Yawitz contributed the initial text of @ref{Debugger}.
-John Haque contributed the initial text of @ref{Arbitrary Precision
Arithmetic}.
+
address@hidden
+The development of the extension API first released with
address@hidden 4.1 was driven primarily by
+Arnold Robbins and Andrew Schorr, with notable contributions from
+the rest of the development team.
address@hidden itemize
@cindex Kernighan, Brian
I would like to thank Brian Kernighan for invaluable assistance during the
@@ -1801,7 +1843,7 @@ take advantage of those opportunities.
Arnold Robbins @*
Nof Ayalon @*
ISRAEL @*
-March, 2011
+April, 2013
@iftex
@part Part I:@* The @command{awk} Language
@@ -3177,9 +3219,9 @@ your program. This option is very
similar to the @option{-f} option, but there are two important differences.
First, when @option{-i} is used, the program source will not be loaded if it
has
been previously loaded, whereas the @option{-f} will always load the file.
-Second, because this option is intended to be used with code libraries, the
address@hidden command does not recognize such files as constituting main
program
-input. Thus, after processing an @option{-i} argument, we still expect to
+Second, because this option is intended to be used with code libraries,
address@hidden does not recognize such files as constituting main program
+input. Thus, after processing an @option{-i} argument, @command{gawk} still
expects to
find the main source code via the @option{-f} option or on the command-line.
@item -v @address@hidden
@@ -3855,6 +3897,8 @@ with the @option{-l} option rather than for source files.
If the library
is not found, the path is searched again after adding the appropriate
shared library suffix for the platform. For example, on GNU/Linux systems,
the suffix @samp{.so} is used.
+The search path specified is also used for libraries loaded via the
address@hidden@@load} keyword (@pxref{Loading Shared Libraries}).
@node Other Environment Variables
@subsection Other Environment Variables
@@ -4100,6 +4144,9 @@ For command-line usage, the @option{-l} option is more
convenient,
but @samp{@@load} is useful for embedding inside an @command{awk} source file
that requires access to a shared library.
address@hidden Extensions}, describes how to write extensions (in C or C++)
+that can be loaded with either @samp{@@load} or the @option{-l} option.
+
@node Obsolete
@section Obsolete Options and/or Features
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary of changes:
doc/ChangeLog | 4 +
doc/gawk.info | 1110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
doc/gawk.texi | 77 ++++-
3 files changed, 635 insertions(+), 556 deletions(-)
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