Re: [bug-gawk] Gawk 4.1.2 released!

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Antonio.

> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:10:35 +0200
> From: Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] Gawk 4.1.2 released!
>
> Thanks for this new release of GNU Awk. :-)
>
> Gawk 4.1.2 compiles and passes the tests without a warning on my AMD 
> K6-2, 450 Mhz, 384 MiB of RAM, with gcc 4.1.2.

Great.

> Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > 14. Gawk now expects to be compiled on a system with multibyte
> > character support.  Systems without such support, at least at the C
> > language level, are so obsolete as to not be worth supporting
> > anymore.
>
> Sure. I see that 'wctype.h' is unconditionally included in 'awk.h', but 
> is conditionally included in 'regex_internal.h'. The opposite is true 
> for 'stdlib.h'.

I don't mess with the regex files unless absolutely necessary; they
come from GLIBC.

> I think all the C89 headers, and maybe even 'stdbool.h', could be 
> included unconditionally.

stdbool.h is C99.

> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2229339 Apr 29 08:56 gawk-4.1.2.tar.lz
>
> BTW, updating your lzip could produce a slighty smaller tarball:

One day when I update my Linux version.  Thanks.

Arnold