freebsd-nq/contrib/awk/README_d/README.FIRST
Sheldon Hearn 73b83ffce6 Virgin import of GNU awk 3.0.4, which fixes at least a memory mis-
management problem involving custom print formats.

PR:		13615
Reported by:	Scott Hazen Mueller <scott@zorch.sf-bay.org>
1999-09-27 08:51:04 +00:00

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Sat Feb 18 23:07:55 EST 1995
Starting with 2.15.6, gawk will preserve the value of NF and $0 for
the last record read into the END rule(s). This is important to you
if your program uses
print
in an END rule to mean
print ""
(i.e., print nothing). Examine your awk programs carefully to make sure
that they use `print ""' instead of `print', otherwise you will get
strange results.
If you send me email about this, without having read this
file, I will yell at you.
Arnold Robbins
arnold@gnu.org