ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140301

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2157 2014/01/26 00:20:39 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.2174 2014/03/01 23:17:47 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,40 @@ 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.
 
+20140301
+       + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
+
+20140222
+       + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
+       + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
+       + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
+         console -TD
+
+20140215
+       + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
+         allocating a console-buffer.  This uses a pre-existing environment
+         variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
+         discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
+         when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
+       + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
+         scrolling-stages.
+       + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
+         html emitted by docbook.
+
+20140209
+       + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
+         _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined.  g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
+         has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
+         (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
+
+20140201
+       + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
+         which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
+       + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
+         representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
+         least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
+       + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
+
 20140125
        + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
          not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for