svn commit: r314942 - head/usr.bin/awk
Pedro Giffuni
pfg at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 13 18:40:02 UTC 2017
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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