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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-02-04 05:42:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-02-04 05:42:29 +0200 |
| commit | 37aba870575eccc0f19ed08eea2efe0640de8c64 (patch) | |
| tree | 5aea87ffb5be39db990f0f3fdd3ab9334db278fd /doc/gawktexi.in | |
| parent | 6471f08e36c2c3015d829cf0775d746701d1476b (diff) | |
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Doc improvement for -M / MPFR.
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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index fd2f2825..c392624d 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -3955,7 +3955,7 @@ care to search for all occurrences of each inappropriate construct. As @itemx @option{--bignum} @cindex @option{-M} option @cindex @option{--bignum} option -Force arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. This option has no effect +Select arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. This option has no effect if @command{gawk} is not compiled to use the GNU MPFR and MP libraries (@pxref{Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic}). @@ -29550,7 +29550,8 @@ one extra bit of significand. By default, @command{gawk} uses the double-precision floating-point values supplied by the hardware of the system it runs on. However, if it was -compiled to do so, @command{gawk} uses the @uref{http://www.mpfr.org, +compiled to do so, and the @option{-M} command-line option is supplied, +@command{gawk} uses the @uref{http://www.mpfr.org, GNU MPFR} and @uref{http://gmplib.org, GNU MP} (GMP) libraries for arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. You can see if MPFR support is available like so: |