CVSROOT: /sources/m4 Module name: m4 Branch: branch-1_4 Changes by: Eric Blake <ericb> 07/07/09 12:54:27
Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1.2.106 retrieving revision 1.1.1.1.2.107 diff -u -b -r1.1.1.1.2.106 -r1.1.1.1.2.107 --- NEWS 5 Jul 2007 03:53:05 -0000 1.1.1.1.2.106 +++ NEWS 9 Jul 2007 12:54:27 -0000 1.1.1.1.2.107 @@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ Version 1.4.10 - ?? ??? 2007, by ???? (CVS version 1.4.9c) * Upgrade from GPL version 2 to GPL version 3 or later. +* A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib. +* Avoid undefined behavior introduced in 1.4.9b in the `format' builtin + when handling %c. However, this area of code has never been documented, + and currently does not match the POSIX behavior of printf(1), so it may + have further changes in the next version. Version 1.4.9b - 29 May 2007, by Eric Blake (CVS version 1.4.9a) @@ -19,7 +24,9 @@ more predictably when stdin is seekable. * The `format' builtin now understands formats such as %a, %A, and %'hhd, and works around a number of platform printf bugs. Furthermore, the - sequence format(%*.*d,-1,-1,1) no longer outputs random data. + sequence format(%*.*d,-1,-1,1) no longer outputs random data. However, + some non-compliant platforms such as mingw still have known bugs in + strtod that may cause testsuite failures. * The testsuite is improved to also run gnulib portability tests for the features that M4 imports from gnulib.
