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This appendix contains information mainly of interest to implementers and
maintainers of gawk
. Everything in it applies specifically to
gawk
and not to other implementations.
• Compatibility Mode: | How to disable certain gawk
extensions.
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• Additions: | Making Additions To gawk .
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• Future Extensions: | New features that may be implemented one day. | |
• Implementation Limitations: | Some limitations of the implementation. | |
• Extension Design: | Design notes about the extension API. | |
• Old Extension Mechanism: | Some compatibility for old extensions. | |
• Notes summary: | Summary of implementation notes. |