~vcs-imports/gawk/master

2019-04-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2019-04-05         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add a missing word.

2019-03-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Small formatting fixes. Update version and dates.

2019-03-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: More minor fixes.

	* wordlist: Updated.

2019-03-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update master menu.

2019-03-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Regexp Operators): Refactor a bit into subsections,

	mention that BWK awk now has interval expressions.

2019-02-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error, change update month.

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Small fixes.

	* wordlist: Updated.

2019-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2019-02-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix order of values for PROCINFO["platform"],

	save an email in @ignore for possible eventual inclusion.

	* gawk.1: Correct values for PROCINFO["platform"].

2019-02-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Viewing And Changing Data): Revise note for eval

	to list commands that are not allowed using it.

2019-02-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix wording for %f.

	Thanks to Dan Liddell <dan_liddell@mentor.com> for the catch.

	(Viewing And Changing Data): Note that eval has problems calling

	user-defined functions that return a value. Thanks to

	Lothar Langer <lotharla@gmail.com> for the report.

2019-02-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Don't use `\global\usebracesinindexestrue' as it's

	no longer supported.

	(Function Calling): Renamed from `Function Caveats'.

	(Function Caveats): New node.

	* gawkinet.texi: Don't use `\global\usebracesinindexestrue' as it's

	no longer supported.

2019-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix some indexing with too many commas.

	* gawk.info: Regenerated, moved to makeinfo 6.5.

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2019-02-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Some more minor edits.

2019-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add wordlist3.

	(spellmanpage): New target.

	(spell): Add spellmanpage to the list.

	* wordlist1: Updated.

	* wordlist3: New file.

	* awkcard.in: Finish cleanups.

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

	* gawktexi.in: Fix small typo.

2019-02-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Start on cleanup edits.

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

	* gawktexi.in: Credit Nelson Beebe with gawk's current

	random number generator.

	* gawk.texi, gawk.info: Brought back into sync.

2019-01-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Update copyright dates and

	appropriate version numbers.

2019-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Add a cautionary note that the feature

	is new and may still have dark corners and/or bugs.

2019-01-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Finish up indexing changes.

2019-01-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: More work on the indexing.

	Document that `-f -' works to read source code from stdin.

2019-01-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Work on the indexing.

2019-01-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (I18N Example): $LC_MESSAGES is involved here

	also. Document this.

2019-01-09         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Undocumented): Discuss typeof's optional 2nd argument.

2019-01-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (I18N Example): Add more explanation of how to

	make the directory to hold the .mo file.

2019-01-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Indexing fixes and small corrections.

2019-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Some small indexing fixes. Thanks to Antonio

	Giovanni Colombo for pointing them out.

2019-01-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: A few more fixes w.r.t. namespaces. Thanks to

	Antonio Giovanni Colombo for pointing out the problems.

2018-12-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: A few fixes w.r.t. namespaces. Thanks to

	Antonio Giovanni Colombo for pointing out the problems.

2018-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Added more indexing to the debugger chapter.

	Add more indexing to namespaces chapter, too.

2018-12-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Clean up some FIXMEs and other improvements.

	* gawk.1: Mention that files read with -f and -i and command

	line segments all implicitly start with @namespace "awk".

2018-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Added more indexing to the debugger chapter.

2018-11-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Auto-set): Document that you can no longer use

	arbitrary indices in SYMTAB.

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

2018-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Added more indexing to the debugger chapter.

2018-11-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Document GoAWK, an awk interpreter

	written in Go.

2018-11-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Auto-set) : Update values of PROCINFO["platform"].

	(PC Using): Add to BINMODE discussion to always set it and

	not worry about checking platforms. Per discussion with the dev team.

2018-11-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document that split() third arg is like FS, if it's

	a single character, that character is used, even if it's a

	regexp metacharacter.

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

	Thanks to R <0xef967c36@gmail.com> for the report.

2018-11-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document PROCINFO["platform"].

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

2018-11-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Small typo fix.

2018-11-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Assignment Options): Add description of assigning

	strongly typed regexp constants to variables.

2018-11-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in): Small typo fixes. Thanks to Antonio

	Giovanni Colombo for pointing them out.

2018-11-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Profiling): Review and update.

2018-10-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Arrays of Arrays): Typo fix in code. Thanks to Alto Tom

	<alto.tom@gmail.com> for the report.

	(Usenet): Small edit.

2018-10-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Usenet): Mention that web forums are also not

	the right place for gawk bug reports.

2018-10-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bug address): Mention the GNU Kind

	Communications Guidelines, with URL.

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2018-10-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Profiling): Revise example for pattern without

	action and note that the profiler distinguishes `print' and

	`print $0'.

2018-09-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extracting): Note that patch levels above

	60 are beta software, instead of above 70.

2018-09-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update UPDATE_MONTH.

2018-09-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.in: Regenerated, using Automake 1.16.1.

2018-08-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Updated info on BWK awk.

	* gawktexi.in (Control Letters): Note that BWK awk now also

	supports %a/%A.

2018-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: A number of unrelated updates. Most notably,

	removed the section on old extensions which has been irrelevant

	since 4.2.0. Oops.

2018-08-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Scalar Constants): Fix typos in example.

2018-07-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Scalar Constants): Document what happens with

	physical newlines in strings, escaped and otherwise.

2018-07-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Fix some typos.

	* gawkworkflow.texi (Configuring git): Correct some

	command usages. Thanks to Antonio Colombo for the fix.

2018-07-31         Ralph Corderoy        <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>

	* gawk.1: Avoid hyphenation in gawk email address.

2018-07-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Add a nice example on buffering

	and ptys from Andrew Schorr.

2018-07-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Control Letters): Add a note about output of NaN and

	INF values with an xref to POSIX Floating Point Problems.

	(POSIX Floating Point Problems): Describe that gawk also outputs the

	four special strings for NaN and INF values.

2018-06-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2018-06-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Records, gawk split records): More explanation

	of how RS works when it's longer than one character. Thanks

	to Andrew Schorr for most of the wording.

	* wordlist: Updated.

2018-06-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (awk split records): Document that even if the

	single character in RS is a regexp metacharacter, it's

	treated literally. Per suggestion from Ed Morton.

2018-06-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extract Program): Remove an obsolete sentence.

	Thanks to Andrew Giovanni Colombo for pointing it out.

2018-05-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (String Functions): Clean up and clarify the

	prose description of gensub(). Thanks to Andrew Schorr

	for the encouragement (back in 2016...).

2018-05-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extract Program): Additional bug fixes. Close

	the last file processed, and use the index of the for loop

	which is the filename as the argument to close()!

2018-05-28         Bjarni Ingi Gislason  <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>

	* gawk.1: Change two-fonts macros to one-font macros for a

	single argument.

2018-05-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extract Program): Bug fix. Keep the files open

	in case one program's bits are intermixed with another's.

	Then close them all at the end.  Bug report was about

	indirectcall.awk but affected another file as well. Thanks

	to Ramasahayam Reddy <rureddy57@gmail.com> for the report.

2018-05-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Auto-Set): For PROCINFO["sorted_in"], make the xref

	point to the right place. Reported by David Kaspar

	<dkaspar@redhat.com> from downstream bugzilla:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1581434

2018-05-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bitwise Functions): Use @asis in the table to

	get brackets for optional stuff to come out in Roman.

2018-05-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bracket Expressions): Document the full list

	of characters in [:space:]. Thanks to Jannick <thirdedition@gmx.net>

	for the suggestion.  Also note that current BWK awk gets [:blank:]

	wrong, treating it like [:space:].

2018-04-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Minor edit in the man page. Thanks to Howard

	Johnson <hj@HowardJohnson.name> for the report.

2018-04-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2018-03-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1: Remove mention of tail recursion

	optimization from documentation on -O.

2018-03-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document %a and %A.

	* wordlist, wordlist2: Updated.

2018-03-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Fix update month.

2018-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 4.2.1: Release tar ball made.

2018-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update UPDATE-MONTH.

	* awkcard.in: Update tar ball version and copyright year.

2018-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2018-02-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Further fix to NONFATAL stuff. Thanks to

	Antonio Giovanni Colombo for the report.

2018-02-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix NONFATAL stuff to cover input redirections too.

2018-02-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Fix NONFATAL stuff to cover input redirections too.

2018-02-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Clarify binary mode is default on Cygwin,

	improve section on using on PCs to refer to MinGW and DJGPP.

	Thanks for the report to a contributor who wishes to

	remain anonymous.

2018-01-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* wordlist: Updated.

2018-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (AWKLIBPATH Variable): Add note that changing

	ENVIRON["AWKLIBPATH"] won't affect the running program. Thanks to

	Neil R. Ormos <ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org> for the suggestion.

2018-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (gawkextlib): Update discussion of gawkextlib.

	Add not about json extension, and just present the list as

	describing some of the extensions, since there are now too

	many to try to keep up with all of them.

2018-01-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update gnu.org and fsf.org URLs to https. OK'd

	by the FSF.

2018-01-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove incorrect '*' on some declarations of

	ext_id in sample extension code. Thanks to Panos Papadopoulos

	<panos1962@gmail.com> for the report.

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2018-01-08         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Checking for MPFR): Add warnings about exit's processing

	of END rules.

2018-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update copryight year, and some small cleanups.

2018-01-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Setting the rounding mode): Add a sidebar

	with sample code (courtesy of <nethox@gmail.com>) to

	demonstrate how ROUNDMODE affects number to string conversion.

2017-12-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

	* gawktexi.in (How To Contribute): Update to point to

	awklang.org.

2017-12-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2017-12-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Additional Configuration Options): Add

	description of the --enable-versioned-extension-dir option.

2017-12-01         Sergey Tselikh     <stselikh@gmail.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Several small changes to gawktexi.in,

	mainly related to fixing typos, small text polishing

	and adding @group/@end group in @example and @example-like

	constructs to clean PDF version (formatted for Letter paper,

	which is the default) of orphaned single lines of source code

	or example output in higher and lower parts of pages (such

	lines were with just a "}", or with a single line of code or

	a comment).  Hyphenated words "single-precision",

	"double-precision" and alike left untouched.

2017-12-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add a note to add a section on recursion.

	Thanks to Bill Duncan <bduncan@beachnet.org> for the

	suggestion.

	* gawktexi.in: Add a missing DARKCORNER indicator and

	a few missing dark corner index entries. Remove the note

	at the end to check that all dark corners are indexed and

	instead make it part of the list of consistency checks.

2017-11-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi (General practices): Use correct option

	--delete for deleting a branch upstream, instead of -d.

2017-11-21         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Setting the Rounding Mode): Fix the description

	of ROUNDMODE "A": it uses MPFR_RNDA mode, which rounds away from zero,

	not "Round to nearest, ties away from zero". 

	* gawk.1 (ROUNDMODE): Fix description of "A".

2017-11-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Changes from API V1): Give a list of things

	that changed, with xrefs. Thanks to Andrew Schorr for the push.

2017-11-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (For Statement): Small clarification in the text.

2017-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (General Data Types): Move AWK_NUMBER_TYPE

	enum out to top level, corresponding to code change.

2017-10-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 4.2.0: Release tar ball made.

2017-10-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (EDITION): Update to 4.2. Also, remove all visible

	references to http://awk.info; that site no longer exists.  

2017-10-17         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	Update docs to indicate that isarray is not deprected in this release.

	* awkcard.in: Remove "Deprecated" notice under isarray.

	* gawk.1: Remove deprecated warning under isarray documentation.

	* gawkexti.in: Remove sentence indicating that isarray is deprecated

	and recommending typeof instead.

2017-10-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Add @namespaces to Execution section.

2017-10-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Documents namespaces.

	* awkcard.in: Ditto.

2017-10-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Readfile Function): Fix the code for the naive

	function to be syntactically and semantically correct. Thanks to

	Jaromir Obr <jaromir.obr@gmail.com> for the report.

	(POSIX String Comparison): Add some URL references in @ignore.

	Unrelated:

	* gawktexi.in: Remove description of --with-whiny-user-strftime

	configuration option.

2017-10-08         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix discussion of AWKPATH in section on @include.

2017-10-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update the update month to October.

2017-10-02         Antonio Giovanni Colombo   <azc100@gmail.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Two typo fixes.

2017-10-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add pointer to mawk 2.0 GitHub page.

2017-10-01         Antonio Giovanni Colombo   <azc100@gmail.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update many URLs to https. Some other small fixes.

2017-10-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: One more small change.

	* gawk.1: Brought up to date and polished a bit.

	* gawktexi.in: Some small additional fixes.

2017-09-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Finish changes (we hope) for next release.

2017-09-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* ad.block: Change FSF URL to https.

	* awkcard.in: First round of changes for next release.

2017-09-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Change GNU URLs to use `https://...'.

	Revise UPDATE_MONTH.

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2017-09-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Change 'namespace' to 'name_space' where it matters

	for C++ compatibility.

2017-09-13         David Kaspar          <dkaspar@redhat.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix the dir entry.

	* gawkinet.texi: Allow calling as `info awktexi'.

2017-09-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Installation summary): Note OS/2 exists for PCs

	in a comment.

2017-08-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Contributors): Update entry for Steven Davies.

2017-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated. Fixes table of contents issue

	with very long title.

	* gawktexi.in: Slight rearranging of order of things that

	happened in 4.2.  Minor cleanups related to Scott Deifik.

2017-08-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated. Fixes table of contents issue

	with Part header.

2017-08-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document Marco Curreli's contribution of

	the Italian translation, along with Antonio Colombo.

2017-08-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update history of features appendix section.

	* wordlist, worldlist2: Add more words.

2017-08-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Update versions and

	copyright years, prepatory to starting a release spiral.

2017-08-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update API chapter with info about additions

	for accessing and/or creating MPZ and MPFR values.

2017-08-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2017-08-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespace Summary): Add summary to namespace

	chapter.

2017-08-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update with info about DJGPP port now

	being supported.

2017-07-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Type Functions): Improve the example

	for untyped variables.

	(Extension Exercises): Remove the exercise that talks

	about namespaces, since it's no longer relevant.

2017-07-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extension Sample Inplace): Apply GPL to

	inplace.awk; should have done that when it was first

	added. Oops.

2017-07-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More edits.

2017-07-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error.

	* wordlist: Update with more words.

	Done also for namespace material.

2017-07-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extension Sample Inplace): Rework to use the

	"inplace" namespace.

	* gawktexi.in (Namespace And Features): Renamed from

	`Namespace Misc' and reworked.

	(Symbol table by name): Add note about namespace and

	component name rules with xref to section in Namespaces chapter.

2017-07-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Cleanup, new section on naming rules

	added.

2017-07-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Revised password suite example.

	(Symbol table by name): Add entries for namespace versions

	of lookup and update routines.

2017-07-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More updates. Especially that

	reserved words are not allowed in either half of a fully

	qualified name or as a namespace.

2017-07-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More updates.

2017-07-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Pull in latest from Texinfo SVN.

2017-06-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Move to later in the book.

2017-06-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More minor doc edits.

2017-06-19         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Memory Allocation Functions and Convenience Macros):

	Document new ezalloc API macro.

2017-06-18         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Fix typo.

2017-06-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Expand tab characters.

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Further minor doc edits, including

	hyphenation hint.

2017-06-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Document that reserved words and

	predefined functions can be namespace names but can be in

	the second part of a fully qualified name. (Design decision

	change.)

2017-06-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Document that reserved words and

	predefined functions can't be namespace names. Reformat the

	input a little bit.

2017-06-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Further clarifications. Move to

	`::' as the namespace separator.

2017-06-05         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Checking for MPFR): Fix typo.

2017-06-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Fixes in passwd.awk example. Document

	that indirect calls with an unadorned name assume "awk" namespace.

2017-05-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Initial doc on namespaces. Serves as a design

	right now.

	* gawktexi.in: More doc added.

2017-05-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document PROCINFO["argv"].

2017-05-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Checking for MPFR): New node on checking if

	gawk was invoked with -M.

2017-05-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document FIELDWIDTHS much better, including how

	it works in corner cases. Some general organizational improvements

	in this chunk of text.

2017-04-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Improve documentation of --source option.

2017-04-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document --disable-mpfr configure option.

2017-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Comment out description of intdiv().

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

	* gawktexi.in: References to intdiv changed to intdiv0 and

	bracketed inside @ifset INTDIV. Not set by default.

2017-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Improve documentation of the intdiv() function.

2017-04-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* it: New directory with Italian translation of the manual.

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add `it' and wordlist2.

2017-04-12         Manuel Collado        <m-collado@users.sourceforge.net>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1: Small clarification of the patsplit behavior.

2017-04-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Minor style edits.

2017-04-10         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document FIELDWIDTHS enhancement to support an optional

	field skip prefix. Document new PROCINFO["FS"] value "API".

	Document new get_record field_width argument that enables the API

	parser to override the default field parsing mechanism.

2017-04-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* using-git.texi: Removed.

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Added. New file.

	* wordlist2: New file.

	* Makefile.am: Revised for new document. Copyright years updated.

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Fix some spelling errors. :-(

	* wordlist2: Updated.

	* Makefile.am: Fix spell checking. :-(

2017-03-22         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.1: Document new PROCINFO["FS"] value "API".

2017-03-22         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* awkcard.in: Document FIELDWIDTHS enhancement to support an optional

	field skip prefix.

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

2017-03-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Improve the discussion of quoting on

	MS-Windows. Original text contributed by

	Vincent Belaiche <vincent.belaiche@gmail.com>.

2017-03-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Additional small writing tip in the notes

	after the @bye.

2017-03-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Edits preparatory to release.

2017-02-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: "timezone" --> "time zone".

	* awkcard.in: Update copyright year.

2017-02-21         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.1: Document new mktime optional 2nd utc-flag argument.

	* gawktexi.in: Ditto.

	* awkcard.in: Ditto.

2017-02-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix two typos.

	* wordlist.txt: Update.

	Related:

	* gawktexi.in: Fix more typos.

	* wordlist.txt: Update again.

2017-01-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update UPDATE-MONTH and copyright years.

2017-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Comment out stuff about awk.info, since that

	domain is now gone.

2016-12-05         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Explain why an API extension function might want

	to use the AWK_STRNUM type to return data.

2016-12-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update API table of type requested / type returned.

2016-12-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Minor edits after merging branches and some

	additional work in the code.

2016-12-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Further API clarifications and edits, add a

	section on backwards compatibility.

2016-12-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update description of awk_ext_func_t structure,

	again.

2016-12-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update description of awk_ext_func_t structure.

2016-12-05         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document strnum changes as relates to API.

	Still stuff left to do -- tables for type conversions need

	to be updated to show new strnum and regex rows and columns.

2016-12-04         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove make_regex and replace it with make_const_regex

	and make_malloced_regex.

2016-12-04         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document new flatten_array_typed API function, and

	indicate that the old flatten_array function has been superseded.

2016-11-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document typed regex changes as relates to API.

	Still stuff left to do.

2016-11-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Finish off discussion of strongly typed regexp

	constants and put it in the right place in the manual. A few other

	minor fixes.

	* wordlist: Updated.

2016-11-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Variable Typing): Rework and improve discussion

	of strings, numbers, and strnums.  Update description of strnum

	in other places.

2016-11-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix example use of dcngettext.

	Thanks to Sergey Tselikh <stselikh@gmail.com>

	for the report.

2016-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, wordlist: Typo fix. ECBDIC --> EBCDIC.

	Thanks to Sergey Tselikh <stselikh@gmail.com> for the report.

	(bitwise-ops): Put table in @verbatim instead of @display.

	Works better for Info, text, and HTML. Thanks to

	Marco Curreli <marcocurreli@tiscali.it> for the report.

2016-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error.

	* wordlist: Update.

2016-10-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document that negative arguments are not allowed

	for bitwise functions. Add a sidebar explaining it a bit and

	also showing the difference with and without -M.

	* gawk.1: Document that negative arguments are not allowed.

2016-10-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove references to MS-DOS and OS/2,

	simplify the whole section on PC operating systems.

2016-10-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bugs): Rework this section and break into

	subsections, mainly to emphasize that I no longer

	read comp.lang.awk.

2016-09-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Group Functions): Typo fix. Reported

	by Jaromir Obr <jaromir.obr@gmail.com>.

	(Time Functions): Slightly enhance description of ISO 8601

	definition of first and last weeks. Thanks to

	Michel de Ruiter <mdruiter@gmail.com> for the note.

2016-08-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (POSIX String Comparison): Update for new

	spec where == and != use strcmp, rest use strcoll. Thanks to

	Chet Ramey for pointing me at the new rules.

2016-08-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 4.1.4: Release tar ball made.

2016-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* wordlist: Add more words.

	* gawktexi.in: Fix more typos.

2016-08-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add new file, wordlist.

	(spell): New target.

	* wordlist: New file.

	* gawktexi.in: Fix typos, adjust update date.

	* awkcard.in: Update copyright years.

2016-08-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	Restored doc on typed regexes.

	* gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Updated.

2016-08-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	Remove typed regexes until they can be done properly.

	* gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Updated.

2016-08-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Mark DJGPP port as unsupported.

2016-07-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a typo. Thanks to Marco Curreli for reporting.

2016-07-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document return value of close on a pipe now like

	that of system: exit status, status + 256 for signal, or

	status + 512 for signal with core dump.

2016-07-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a typo. Thanks to Antonio Colombo for reporting.

2016-07-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document GAWK_LOCALE_DIR env var and also to not

	use LANGUAGE env var.

2016-07-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Auto-set): Add example use of multiply function.

2016-06-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Typo fix. Thanks to Antonio Giovanni Colombo

	for noticing.

2016-06-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Document typeof(), update modified date.

	* awkcard.in: Document typeof().

2016-06-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a typo, and replace hard-coded "section" with

	@value{SECTION} where appropriate. Thanks to Antonio

	Giovanni Colombo for the reports.

	(UPDATE-MONTH, PATCHLEVEL): Update to current before release.

	* awkcard.in: Update version.

2016-05-30         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Replace num_expected_args with max_expected_args.

	Explain what it's used for.

2016-05-25         Manuel Collado        <mcollado2011@gmail.com>.

	* gawktexi.in: Document new 'nonfatal' API function.

2016-05-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Typo fix in extension section, thanks to

	 Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com>.

2016-05-02         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document new CPP defines gawk_api_major_version and

	gawk_api_minor_version.

2016-04-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Some general cleanups. Remove stuff commented

	out since 2001, index RFCs, change function name convention to

	match main gawktexi.in. Update the update month.

2016-04-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Document that writing to the closed

	write end of a two way pipe or reading from the closed read end

	can be made nonfatal.

2016-04-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawkinet.texi: Enable use of braces in

	indexes. Requires Texinfo 6.0 or later.

2016-04-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Document that closing the "from"

	end waits for the process to exit, so it's not such a great idea.

2016-03-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Small update about end of line vs full

	comments when pretty printing.

2016-03-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Update UDP client and discussion, update

	modification dates and gawk versions.

2016-03-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Improve system() return values documentation.

2016-03-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document system() return values.

	* gawk.1: Add a pointer to the manual about same.

2016-02-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* sidebar.awk: Globally replace [[:space:]] with [ \t] so that

	it will work with old versions of mawk (as found, boo!, on many

	Debian-based distributions).  Thanks to Yehezkel Bernat for

	discovering and reporting the issue.

2016-02-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bracket Expressions): Add a small note about

	Unicode in bracket expressions.

2016-02-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fixes in wc.awk and in cut.awk. Thanks to David Ward,

	dlward134@gmail.com.  Added an example of use of rewind(), also

	per suggestion from David Ward.

	* gawktexi.in: Update info about Texinfo versions.

	* gawktexi.in (Limitations): Fix Heisenberg Physics example and

	spelling of Heisenberg's name. Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2016-02-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Revise for use with Texinfo 6.1.

	Remove ` @c' at the end of inline docbook constructs.

	Remove special @DB*REF macros, not needed anymore.

	Use @sup for superscripts where possible.

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2016-02-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Document that optimization in now the default,

	there are new -s/--no-optimize options and that

	pretty-printing and profiling disable optimization.

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

	* awkcard.in: Ditto.

2016-02-03         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Command-Line Options): Change wording of -M description

	to say "Select" instead of "Force".

	(Arbitrary-Precision Arithmetic Features): Tweak the wording to make

	it clear that MPFR is not used unless the -M option is supplied.

2016-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (VMS Running): Improve the Texinfo usage.

2016-01-31         John E. Malmberg     <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

	* gawktexi.in (VMS Running): Add instructions on how to redirect

	gawk data to a VMS command.

2016-01-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bracket Expressions): Document that '[', '.' and

	'*' are literal inside bracket expressions.

	(Two-way I/O): Add stuff about stdbuf and deadlocks.

2016-01-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Array Sorting Functions): Clean up the code some,

	per suggestion from Michal Jaegermann. Tighten up the prose

	a bit too.

2016-01-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* ChangeLog: Remove spurious whitespace.

	Unrelated:

	* gawk.1: Restore text on PROCINFO["RETRY"] and fix up the

	formatting while we're at it. Thanks to Andrew Schorr for

	pointing out the problem.

2016-01-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Array Sorting Functions): Add an example of

	using a function name with asort(). Response to bug report

	Stephane Goujet <stephane.goujet@wanadoo.fr>.

2016-01-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Finish documenting that --pretty-print

	doesn't run the program. Thanks to Antonio

	Giovanni Colombo for the report and patch.

2016-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document that GNU/Linux on Alpha is no

	longer supported.

2015-12-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix some @c endfile. Thanks to Antonio

	Giovanni Colombo for the report and patch.

2015-12-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add PROCINFO["NONFATAL"] to the list for PROCINFO.

	* gawk.1: Ditto.

2015-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Update description of PROCINFO, and sort it properly.

	* gawktexi.in: Ditto.

2015-11-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add "exit" as synonym for "quit" in the

	debugger.  Suggested by Joep van Delft <joepvandelft@xs4all.nl>.

2015-11-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Minor edits.

	* gawk.1: Revise \x to maximum of two digits.

2015-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (pdf-local): Remove igawk.1.pdf. Ooops.

2015-10-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (awkcard.ps): Add options to force paper size

	to letter. This makes the cut marks come out correctly even

	if groff's default paper size is a4.

2015-10-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Put commas outside quoting in regexps to avoid

	confusion. Thanks to Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>.

2015-10-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Fix tbl complaint.

2015-10-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated to a working version.

2015-10-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Revert update. It stopped working. I should learn

	to test these things. Thanks to Antonio Giovanni Colombo for

	the report.

2015-10-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Note that there is no support for SSL.

2015-09-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Update to latest.

2015-08-28	Daniel Richard G.	<skunk@iSKUNK.ORG>

	* doc/gawktexi.in: Check for the "struct passwd.pw_passwd" and

	"struct group.gr_passwd" fields and conditionalize their use, as

	they don't exist on z/OS.

	* Makefile.am (pdf-local): Renamed from "pdf", as Automake already

	defines "pdf" and warns us as much.

2015-08-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Typo fixes in Appendix A.

	Thanks to Antonio Colombo.

2015-07-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Small typo fix; thanks to Antonio Colombo

	for noticing.

2015-07-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update info on Quiktrim awk; thanks to