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commit bb9e935084b97bc8369856d3e075b7e19182e120
Author: Andrew J. Schorr <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Mar 25 11:22:59 2012 -0400

    Really Added TODO.xgawk

diff --git a/TODO.xgawk b/TODO.xgawk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c8ff98
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@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+To-do list for xgawk enhancements:
+
+
+Done:
+
+- Add AWKLIBPATH with default pointing to ${libexecdir}/$PACKAGE/$VERSION
+
+- Change default shared library extension from ".so" to ".$shlibext"
+
+- Patch build infrastructure so that the current code in the
+  extension subdirectory gets built and installed into the default $AWKLIBPATH
+  location.
+
+- Implement @load
+
+
+To do (not necessarily in this order):
+
+- Enable default ".awk" search in io.c:find_source().  The simple change
+  is to add this code inline in io.c:
+      #ifndef DEFAULT_FILETYPE
+      #define DEFAULT_FILETYPE ".awk"
+      #endif
+
+- Fix lint complaints about shared library functions being called without
+  having been defined.  For example, try:
+     gawk --lint -lordchr 'BEGIN {print chr(65)}'
+     gawk: warning: function `chr' called but never defined
+     A
+  In ext.c, make_builtin needs to call awkgram.y:func_use.  If done naively,
+  I think this would result in complaints about shared library functions
+  defined but not used.  So there should probably be an enhancement to func_use
+  and ftable to indicate if it's a shared library function.
+
+- Patch standard extensions to work properly.  For example, fork is broken.
+  And I think we made a few improvements in the xgawk versions.
+
+- Add tests for standard extensions.
+
+- Patch ERRNO handling to create a simple API for use by extensions:
+   extern void update_ERRNO_int(int)
+   enum errno_translate { TRANSLATE, DONT_TRANSLATE };
+   extern void update_ERRNO_string(const char *string, enum errno_translate);
+   extern void unset_ERRNO(void);
+
+- Develop a libgawk shared library for use by extensions.  In particular,
+  a few existing extensions use a hash API for mapping string handles to
+  structures.  In xgawk, we had this API inside array.c, but it probably
+  belongs in a separate libgawk shared library:
+
+  typedef struct _strhash strhash;
+  extern strhash *strhash_create P((size_t min_table_size));
+  /* Find an entry in the hash table.  If it is not found, the 
insert_if_missing
+     argument indicates whether a new entry should be created.  The caller
+     may set the "data" field to any desired value.  If it is a new entry,
+     "data" will be initialized to NULL. */
+  extern strhash_entry *strhash_get P((strhash *, const char *s, size_t len,
+                                      int insert_if_missing));
+  typedef void (*strhash_delete_func)(void *data, void *opaque,
+                                     strhash *, strhash_entry *);
+  extern int strhash_delete P((strhash *, const char *s, size_t len,
+                              strhash_delete_func, void *opaque));
+  extern void strhash_destroy P((strhash *, strhash_delete_func, void 
*opaque));
+
+- Running "make install" should install the new libgawk shared library
+  as well as header files needed to build extensions under /usr/include/gawk.
+  The extensions include "awk.h", and that pulls in the following headers
+  (according to gcc -M) :
+      awk.h config.h custom.h gettext.h mbsupport.h protos.h getopt.h \
+      regex.h dfa.h
+  Most likely, most of this is not required.  Arnold has suggested 
+  creating a smaller header to define the public interface for use by shared
+  libraries.  One could imagine having "awk-ext.h" that is included by "awk.h".
+
+
+Separate projects for major standalone extensions.  Where should these
+be hosted?
+
+- Time.  This defines sleep and gettimeofday.   This one is quite trivial,
+  and I propose that it be included in the mainline gawk distro.
+
+- XML
+
+- PostgreSQL
+
+- GD
+
+- MPFR.  Is this still useful if MPFR support will be integrated into gawk?
+
+
+Possible changes requiring (further) discussion:
+
+- Implement namespaces.  Arnold suggested the following in an email:
+  - Extend the definition of an 'identifier' to include "." as a valid 
character
+    although an identifier can't start with it.
+  - Extension libraries install functions and global variables with names
+    that have a "." in them:  XML.parse(), XML.name, whatever.
+  - Awk code can read/write such variables and call such functions, but they
+    cannot define such functions
+         function XML.foo() { .. }     # error
+    or create a variable with such a name if it doesn't exist. This would
+    be a run-time error, not a parse-time error.
+  - This last rule may be too restrictive.
+  I don't want to get into fancy rules a la perl and file-scope visibility
+  etc, I'd like to keep things simple.  But how we design this is going
+  to be very important.
+
+- Add a valgrind target in Makefile.am and associated valgrind-scan target in
+  test/Makefile.am.  This runs "make check" under valgrind.  This was
+  invaluable for finding bugs.
+
+- Include a sample rpm spec file in a new packaging subdirectory.
+
+- Patch lexer for @include and @load to make quotes optional.
+
+- Add a -i (--include) option.

http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=0bbb717969921d9a8a587ae39cedff283cd898fa

commit 0bbb717969921d9a8a587ae39cedff283cd898fa
Author: Andrew J. Schorr <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Mar 25 11:22:19 2012 -0400

    Added TODO.xgawk.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 542ee78..39b05e5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-03-25         Andrew J. Schorr     <address@hidden>
+
+       * TODO.xgawk: New file listing completed and pending xgawk enhancements.
+
 2012-03-24         Andrew J. Schorr     <address@hidden>
 
        * io.c (path_info): Fix white space.

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