svn commit: r314942 - head/usr.bin/awk

[Warner Losh]

Maybe you can bring them in here? :)

Warner

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On 13/09/2017 13:15, John Baldwin wrote:
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>> 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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>