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diff --git a/doc/gawk.info b/doc/gawk.info index c56ac89c..bf573a8a 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.info +++ b/doc/gawk.info @@ -9071,9 +9071,10 @@ accepts any record with a first field that contains `li': -| 555-5553 -| 555-6699 - pattern. The expression `/li/' has the value one if `li' appears in -the current input record. Thus, as a pattern, `/li/' matches any record -containing `li'. + A regexp constant as a pattern is also a special case of an +expression pattern. The expression `/li/' has the value one if `li' +appears in the current input record. Thus, as a pattern, `/li/' matches +any record containing `li'. Boolean expressions are also commonly used as patterns. Whether the pattern matches an input record depends on whether its subexpressions @@ -22636,7 +22637,7 @@ the rest of this Info file. `gawk''s functionality. For example, they can provide access to system calls (such as `chdir()' to change directory) and to other C library routines that could be of use. As with most software, "the sky is the -limit;" if you can imagine something that you might want to do and can +limit"; if you can imagine something that you might want to do and can write in C or C++, you can write an extension to do it! Extensions are written in C or C++, using the "application @@ -22644,7 +22645,7 @@ programming interface" (API) defined for this purpose by the `gawk' developers. The rest of this major node explains the facilities that the API provides and how to use them, and presents a small example extension. In addition, it documents the sample extensions included in -the `gawk' distribution, and describes the `gawkextlib' project. *Note +the `gawk' distribution and describes the `gawkextlib' project. *Note Extension Design::, for a discussion of the extension mechanism goals and design. @@ -22762,7 +22763,7 @@ Example::) and also in the `testext.c' code for testing the APIs. Some other bits and pieces: * The API provides access to `gawk''s `do_XXX' values, reflecting - command-line options, like `do_lint', `do_profiling' and so on + command-line options, like `do_lint', `do_profiling', and so on (*note Extension API Variables::). These are informational: an extension cannot affect their values inside `gawk'. In addition, attempting to assign to them produces a compile-time error. @@ -22808,8 +22809,8 @@ File: gawk.info, Node: Extension API Functions Introduction, Next: General Dat 16.4.1 Introduction ------------------- -Access to facilities within `gawk' are made available by calling -through function pointers passed into your extension. +Access to facilities within `gawk' is achieved by calling through +function pointers passed into your extension. API function pointers are provided for the following kinds of operations: @@ -22830,7 +22831,7 @@ operations: - Two-way processors - All of these are discussed in detail, later in this major node. + All of these are discussed in detail later in this major node. * Printing fatal, warning, and "lint" warning messages. @@ -22856,7 +22857,7 @@ operations: - Clearing an array - - Flattening an array for easy C style looping over all its + - Flattening an array for easy C-style looping over all its indices and elements Some points about using the API: @@ -22865,7 +22866,7 @@ operations: `gawkapi.h'. For correct use, you must therefore include the corresponding standard header file _before_ including `gawkapi.h': - C Entity Header File + C entity Header file ------------------------------------------- `EOF' `<stdio.h>' Values for `errno' `<errno.h>' @@ -22889,13 +22890,13 @@ operations: * Although the API only uses ISO C 90 features, there is an exception; the "constructor" functions use the `inline' keyword. If your compiler does not support this keyword, you should either - place `-Dinline=''' on your command line, or use the GNU Autotools + place `-Dinline=''' on your command line or use the GNU Autotools and include a `config.h' file in your extensions. * All pointers filled in by `gawk' point to memory managed by `gawk' and should be treated by the extension as read-only. Memory for _all_ strings passed into `gawk' from the extension _must_ come - from calling one of `gawk_malloc()', `gawk_calloc()' or + from calling one of `gawk_malloc()', `gawk_calloc()', or `gawk_realloc()', and is managed by `gawk' from then on. * The API defines several simple `struct's that map values as seen @@ -22908,7 +22909,7 @@ operations: multibyte encoding (as defined by `LC_XXX' environment variables) and not using wide characters. This matches how `gawk' stores strings internally and also how characters are - likely to be input and output from files. + likely to be input into and output from files. * When retrieving a value (such as a parameter or that of a global variable or array element), the extension requests a specific type @@ -22945,6 +22946,8 @@ general-purpose use. Additional, more specialized, data structures are introduced in subsequent minor nodes, together with the functions that use them. + The general-purpose types and structures are as follows: + `typedef void *awk_ext_id_t;' A value of this type is received from `gawk' when an extension is loaded. That value must then be passed back to `gawk' as the @@ -22960,7 +22963,7 @@ use them. ` awk_false = 0,' ` awk_true' `} awk_bool_t;' - A simple boolean type. + A simple Boolean type. `typedef struct awk_string {' ` char *str; /* data */' @@ -23004,8 +23007,8 @@ use them. `#define array_cookie u.a' `#define scalar_cookie u.scl' `#define value_cookie u.vc' - These macros make accessing the fields of the `awk_value_t' more - readable. + Using these macros makes accessing the fields of the `awk_value_t' + more readable. `typedef void *awk_scalar_t;' Scalars can be represented as an opaque type. These values are @@ -31951,7 +31954,7 @@ Index * BEGIN pattern, and profiling: Profiling. (line 62) * BEGIN pattern, assert() user-defined function and: Assert Function. (line 83) -* BEGIN pattern, Boolean patterns and: Expression Patterns. (line 69) +* BEGIN pattern, Boolean patterns and: Expression Patterns. (line 70) * BEGIN pattern, exit statement and: Exit Statement. (line 12) * BEGIN pattern, getline and: Getline Notes. (line 19) * BEGIN pattern, headings, adding: Print Examples. (line 43) @@ -31968,7 +31971,7 @@ Index * BEGIN pattern, TEXTDOMAIN variable and: Programmer i18n. (line 60) * BEGINFILE pattern: BEGINFILE/ENDFILE. (line 6) * BEGINFILE pattern, Boolean patterns and: Expression Patterns. - (line 69) + (line 70) * beginfile() user-defined function: Filetrans Function. (line 62) * Bentley, Jon: Glossary. (line 207) * Benzinger, Michael: Contributors. (line 97) @@ -31994,7 +31997,7 @@ Index * body, in actions: Statements. (line 10) * body, in loops: While Statement. (line 14) * Boolean expressions: Boolean Ops. (line 6) -* Boolean expressions, as patterns: Expression Patterns. (line 38) +* Boolean expressions, as patterns: Expression Patterns. (line 39) * Boolean operators, See Boolean expressions: Boolean Ops. (line 6) * Bourne shell, quoting rules for: Quoting. (line 18) * braces ({}): Profiling. (line 142) @@ -32578,7 +32581,7 @@ Index * END pattern, and profiling: Profiling. (line 62) * END pattern, assert() user-defined function and: Assert Function. (line 75) -* END pattern, Boolean patterns and: Expression Patterns. (line 69) +* END pattern, Boolean patterns and: Expression Patterns. (line 70) * END pattern, exit statement and: Exit Statement. (line 12) * END pattern, next/nextfile statements and <1>: Next Statement. (line 44) @@ -32587,7 +32590,7 @@ Index * END pattern, operators and: Using BEGIN/END. (line 17) * END pattern, print statement and: I/O And BEGIN/END. (line 16) * ENDFILE pattern: BEGINFILE/ENDFILE. (line 6) -* ENDFILE pattern, Boolean patterns and: Expression Patterns. (line 69) +* ENDFILE pattern, Boolean patterns and: Expression Patterns. (line 70) * endfile() user-defined function: Filetrans Function. (line 62) * endgrent() function (C library): Group Functions. (line 212) * endgrent() user-defined function: Group Functions. 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