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-New in alpha3.6: A couple more portability glitches fixed.
-
-New in alpha3.5: Active development of this code has been stopped --
-I'm working on a complete reimplementation -- but folks have found some
-minor portability glitches and the like, hence this release to fix them.
-One penalty: slightly reduced compatibility with old compilers, because
-the ANSI C `unsigned long' type and `ul' constant suffix are used in a
-few places (I could avoid this but it would be considerably more work).
-
-New in alpha3.4: The complex bug alluded to below has been fixed (in a
-slightly kludgey temporary way that may hurt efficiency a bit; this is
-another "get it out the door for 4.4" release). The tests at the end of
-the tests file have accordingly been uncommented. The primary sign of
-the bug was that something like a?b matching ab matched b rather than ab.
-(The bug was essentially specific to this exact situation, else it would
-have shown up earlier.)
-
-New in alpha3.3: The definition of word boundaries has been altered
-slightly, to more closely match the usual programming notion that "_"
-is an alphabetic. Stuff used for pre-ANSI systems is now in a subdir,
-and the makefile no longer alludes to it in mysterious ways. The
-makefile has generally been cleaned up some. Fixes have been made
-(again!) so that the regression test will run without -DREDEBUG, at
-the cost of weaker checking. A workaround for a bug in some folks'
-<assert.h> has been added. And some more things have been added to
-tests, including a couple right at the end which are commented out
-because the code currently flunks them (complex bug; fix coming).
-Plus the usual minor cleanup.
-
-New in alpha3.2: Assorted bits of cleanup and portability improvement
-(the development base is now a BSDI system using GCC instead of an ancient
-Sun system, and the newer compiler exposed some glitches). Fix for a
-serious bug that affected REs using many [] (including REG_ICASE REs
-because of the way they are implemented), *sometimes*, depending on
-memory-allocation patterns. The header-file prototypes no longer name
-the parameters, avoiding possible name conflicts. The possibility that
-some clot has defined CHAR_MIN as (say) `-128' instead of `(-128)' is
-now handled gracefully. "uchar" is no longer used as an internal type
-name (too many people have the same idea). Still the same old lousy
-performance, alas.
-
-New in alpha3.1: Basically nothing, this release is just a bookkeeping
-convenience. Stay tuned.
-
-New in alpha3.0: Performance is no better, alas, but some fixes have been
-made and some functionality has been added. (This is basically the "get
-it out the door in time for 4.4" release.) One bug fix: regfree() didn't
-free the main internal structure (how embarrassing). It is now possible
-to put NULs in either the RE or the target string, using (resp.) a new
-REG_PEND flag and the old REG_STARTEND flag. The REG_NOSPEC flag to
-regcomp() makes all characters ordinary, so you can match a literal
-string easily (this will become more useful when performance improves!).
-There are now primitives to match beginnings and ends of words, although
-the syntax is disgusting and so is the implementation. The REG_ATOI
-debugging interface has changed a bit. And there has been considerable
-internal cleanup of various kinds.
-
-New in alpha2.3: Split change list out of README, and moved flags notes
-into Makefile. Macro-ized the name of regex(7) in regex(3), since it has
-to change for 4.4BSD. Cleanup work in engine.c, and some new regression
-tests to catch tricky cases thereof.
-
-New in alpha2.2: Out-of-date manpages updated. Regerror() acquires two
-small extensions -- REG_ITOA and REG_ATOI -- which avoid debugging kludges
-in my own test program and might be useful to others for similar purposes.
-The regression test will now compile (and run) without REDEBUG. The
-BRE \$ bug is fixed. Most uses of "uchar" are gone; it's all chars now.
-Char/uchar parameters are now written int/unsigned, to avoid possible
-portability problems with unpromoted parameters. Some unsigned casts have
-been introduced to minimize portability problems with shifting into sign
-bits.
-
-New in alpha2.1: Lots of little stuff, cleanup and fixes. The one big
-thing is that regex.h is now generated, using mkh, rather than being
-supplied in the distribution; due to circularities in dependencies,
-you have to build regex.h explicitly by "make h". The two known bugs
-have been fixed (and the regression test now checks for them), as has a
-problem with assertions not being suppressed in the absence of REDEBUG.
-No performance work yet.
-
-New in alpha2: Backslash-anything is an ordinary character, not an
-error (except, of course, for the handful of backslashed metacharacters
-in BREs), which should reduce script breakage. The regression test
-checks *where* null strings are supposed to match, and has generally
-been tightened up somewhat. Small bug fixes in parameter passing (not
-harmful, but technically errors) and some other areas. Debugging
-invoked by defining REDEBUG rather than not defining NDEBUG.
-
-New in alpha+3: full prototyping for internal routines, using a little
-helper program, mkh, which extracts prototypes given in stylized comments.
-More minor cleanup. Buglet fix: it's CHAR_BIT, not CHAR_BITS. Simple
-pre-screening of input when a literal string is known to be part of the
-RE; this does wonders for performance.
-
-New in alpha+2: minor bits of cleanup. Notably, the number "32" for the
-word width isn't hardwired into regexec.c any more, the public header
-file prototypes the functions if __STDC__ is defined, and some small typos
-in the manpages have been fixed.
-
-New in alpha+1: improvements to the manual pages, and an important
-extension, the REG_STARTEND option to regexec().
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