[SCM] GNU M4 source repository branch, branch-1_4, updated. branch-cvs-readonly-36-g9ccfb79

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- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
commit 9ccfb79790837f554250bb255120494204858a4a
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Jan 7 06:09:21 2008 -0700

    Bump copyright year.
    
    * NEWS: Update year.  Mention effect of my recent memmem
    contributions to gnulib.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog |    8 +++++++-
 NEWS      |   11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e6fee41..8e1d28f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-01-08  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       Bump copyright year.
+       * NEWS: Update year.  Mention effect of my recent memmem
+       contributions to gnulib.
+
 2007-12-21  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        Stage 9: share rather than copy single-arg refs.
@@ -4361,7 +4367,7 @@ Mon Jan 22 21:08:52 1990  Rene' Seindal (seindal at 
diku.dk)
        End:
 
        Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-       2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+       2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
        Copying and distribution of this file, with or without
        modification, are permitted provided the copyright notice
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 051a16a..d7a3bae 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 GNU M4 NEWS - User visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software
+Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software
 Foundation, Inc.
 
-Version 1.4.11 - ?? ??? 2007, by ????  (git version 1.4.10a-*)
+Version 1.4.11 - ?? ??? 2008, by ????  (git version 1.4.10a-*)
 
 * Security fixes for the -F option, for bugs present since -F was
   introduced in 1.3: Avoid core dump with 'm4 -F file -t undefined', and
@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ Version 1.4.11 - ?? ??? 2007, by ????  (git version 
1.4.10a-*)
   possible to concatenate a builtin macro with anything else; a warning is
   now issued if this is attempted, although a future version of M4 may lift
   this restriction to match other implementations.
-* Several improvements in `index', `regexp', and `patsubst' builtins to
-  speed up typical Autoconf usage.
+* Enhance the `index' builtin to guarantee linear behavior and often
+  acheive sublinear results, in spite of the surprisingly large number of
+  systems with a brain-dead quadratic strstr(3).
+* Enhance the `regexp' and `patsubst' builtins to cache frequently used
+  regular expressions, which speeds up typical Autoconf usage.
 * Memory usage is greatly reduced in recursive macros.
 * A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.
 


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