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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2016-02-04 05:44:17 +0200
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2016-02-04 05:44:17 +0200
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@@ -3960,7 +3960,7 @@ 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}).
@@ -29958,7 +29958,8 @@ 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: