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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 146a3761..a48c40f6 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -4044,7 +4044,7 @@ care to search for all occurrences of each inappropriate construct. As @itemx @option{--bignum} @cindex @option{-M} option @cindex @option{--bignum} option -Force arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. This option has no effect +Select arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. This option has no effect if @command{gawk} is not compiled to use the GNU MPFR and MP libraries (@pxref{Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic}). @@ -30459,7 +30459,8 @@ one extra bit of significand. By default, @command{gawk} uses the double-precision floating-point values supplied by the hardware of the system it runs on. However, if it was -compiled to do so, @command{gawk} uses the @uref{http://www.mpfr.org, +compiled to do so, and the @option{-M} command-line option is supplied, +@command{gawk} uses the @uref{http://www.mpfr.org, GNU MPFR} and @uref{http://gmplib.org, GNU MP} (GMP) libraries for arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. You can see if MPFR support is available like so: |