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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2010-07-16 12:54:45 +0300
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.ds PX \s-1POSIX\s+1
.ds UX \s-1UNIX\s+1
.ds AN \s-1ANSI\s+1
-.TH GAWK 1 "Dec 19 1996" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Apr 28 1999" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
.SH NAME
gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -2150,6 +2150,12 @@ Functions may call each other and may be recursive.
Function parameters used as local variables are initialized
to the null string and the number zero upon function invocation.
.PP
+Use
+.BI return " expr"
+to return a value from a function. The return value is undefined if no
+value is provided, or if the function returns by ``falling off'' the
+end.
+.PP
If
.B \-\^\-lint
has been provided,
@@ -2535,7 +2541,7 @@ and the effort to do so really is not worth it.
.SH VERSION INFORMATION
This man page documents
.IR gawk ,
-version 3.0.2.
+version 3.0.4.
.SH AUTHORS
The original version of \*(UX
.I awk
@@ -2566,10 +2572,10 @@ help from Darrel Hankerson. Fred Fish supplied support for the Amiga.
If you find a bug in
.IR gawk ,
please send electronic mail to
-.BR bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu ,
+.BR bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org ,
.I with
a carbon copy to
-.BR arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu .
+.BR arnold@gnu.org .
Please include your operating system and its revision, the version of
.IR gawk ,
what C compiler you used to compile it, and a test program
@@ -2598,7 +2604,7 @@ Brian Kernighan of Bell Labs
provided valuable assistance during testing and debugging.
We thank him.
.SH COPYING PERMISSIONS
-Copyright \(co) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright \(co) 1996,97,98,99 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual page provided the copyright notice and this permission