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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2020-10-09 09:13:34 +0300
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2020-10-09 09:17:47 +0300
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Implement tagged structure initializers.
* NEWS: Document changes. * doc/gdbm.texi: Document changes. * src/datconv.c (datum_scan_tag): Implement tagged structure initialization. * src/gdbmtool.c (kvlist_free): Made extern. (kvlist_find): New function. * src/gdbmtool.h (kvlist_find, kvlist_free) (dsegm_list_find): New protos. (dsegm_free_list): Rename to dsegm_list_free. All uses changed. * src/gram.y: Forbid duplicate tags in kvlist.
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-GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2018-10-27
-Copyright (C) 1990-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2020-10-09
+Copyright (C) 1990-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of file for copying conditions.
Please send gdbm bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>.
+Version 1.18.90 (git)
+
+* Pre-read the memory mapped regions on systems that support it.
+
+This speeds up operations on big databases.
+
+* gdbmtool: tagged initialization of structured data
+
+Initializers for structured data can be given in tagged form, e.g.:
+
+ store somekey { status=2, id={a,u,x}, name="foo" }
+
+* Bugfixes:
+
+** Preserve locking type during database reorganization
+
+
Version 1.18.1 - 2018-10-27
* Fix debian bug 910911
@@ -505,7 +522,7 @@ Version 0.9
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