Fix calling user defined functions from eval.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi
index b0b4d3d0..24646435 100644
--- a/doc/gawk.texi
+++ b/doc/gawk.texi
@@ -31132,9 +31132,14 @@ You can do anything that an @command{awk} program would do: assign
 values to variables, call functions, and so on.
 
 @quotation NOTE
-Do to implementation constraintss, using @code{eval} to call a
-user-defined function that returns a value does not work, generating
-an error message.  We hope to one day remove this constraint.
+You cannot use @code{eval} to execute a statement containing
+any of the following:
+@code{exit},
+@code{getline},
+@code{next},
+@code{nextfile},
+or
+@code{return}.
 @end quotation
 
 @item @code{eval} @var{param}, @dots{}