ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080804

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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1245 2008/06/14 23:08:10 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1261 2008/08/04 18:22:11 tom Exp $

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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started


@@ -45,6 +45,51 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 

+20080804
+       + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
+       + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
+       + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
+       + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
+         "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
+       + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
+         search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
+
+20080726
+       + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
+         thresholds).
+
+20080713
+       + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
+
+20080712
+       + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
+
+20080705
+       + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
+         make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
+         (cf: 20050205).
+       + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
+       + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
+         -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
+         not link.
+
+20080628
+       + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
+       + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
+         interface.
+       + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
+         by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
+       + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+       + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
+
+20080621
+       + regenerated html documentation.
+       + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
+         menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
+       + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
+         def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
+       + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
+

 20080614
        + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
        + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
 20080614
        + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
        + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.