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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index f9a0d747..e16b8ae3 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -12219,9 +12219,14 @@ One possibly undesirable effect of this definition of remainder is that -17 % 8 = -1 @end example +@noindent +This definition is compliant with the POSIX standard, which says that the @code{%} +operator produces results equivalent to using the standard C +@code{fmod()} function, and that function in turn works as just +described. + In other @command{awk} implementations, the signedness of the remainder may be machine-dependent. -@c FIXME !!! what does posix say? @cindex portability @subentry @code{**} operator and @cindex @code{*} (asterisk) @subentry @code{**} operator |