CVSROOT: /sources/m4 Module name: m4 Changes by: Eric Blake <ericb> 07/07/10 20:48:11
Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.43 retrieving revision 1.44 diff -u -b -r1.43 -r1.44 --- NEWS 31 May 2007 13:26:38 -0000 1.43 +++ NEWS 10 Jul 2007 20:48:07 -0000 1.44 @@ -201,6 +201,41 @@ *** Improvements made in the 1.4.x stable series have been incorporated. +* Version 1.4.10 - 09 Jul 2007, by Eric Blake (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) + +** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.9 in the `eval' builtin when performing + division. + +** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.8 in the `-F' option that made it + impossible to freeze more than 512 kibibytes of diverted text. + +** The synclines option `-s' no longer generates sync lines in the middle of + multiline comments or quoted strings. + +** Work around a number of corner-case POSIX compliance bugs in various + broken stdio libraries. In particular, the `syscmd' builtin behaves + 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. 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. + * Version 1.4.9 - 23 Mar 2007, by Eric Blake (CVS version 1.4.8c) ** Minor documentation and portability cleanups.
