Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:37:14 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r314942 - head/usr.bin/awk Message-ID: <431fe768-f781-e19f-0e2c-bdffa9be9273@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5311676.nqsSxOZALl@ralph.baldwin.cx> References: <201703090327.v293RrEY016498@repo.freebsd.org> <5311676.nqsSxOZALl@ralph.baldwin.cx>
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On 13/09/2017 13:15, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, March 09, 2017 03:27:53 AM Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> Author: bapt >> Date: Thu Mar 9 03:27:53 2017 >> New Revision: 314942 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314942 >> >> Log: >> Import the awk(1) manpage from OpenBSD >> >> As discussed during AsiaBSDcon devsummit, import the manpage from OpenBSD which >> is has been rewritten in mdoc(7) format making it readable by default with >> mandoc, it also has been extended by OpenBSD to cover all awk(1) options >> >> Obtained from: OpenBSD >> MFH: 1 week > One problem noted today by imp@ is that this doesn't quite document the awk we > ship: > > % echo 42 | awk '{ print lshift($1, 1) }' > awk: calling undefined function lshift > input record number 1, file > source line number 1 > > None of the bit operations described in this manpage are implemented in > one-true-awk. Hmm, it seems that OpenBSD added those as a local patch > relative to one-true-awk in 1.10 of lex.c. So Someone(tm) needs to probably > compare OpenBSD's awk to one-true-awk to see what local changes they have > and either update the manpage here or pull the local diffs across. (I'd > probably we just grab the implementation for the bitwise ops myself.) > Hmm ... TBH, many years ago I tried to upstream the OpenBSD (actually gawk) extensions but upstream (bwk) was not interested. Pedro.
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