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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index f8fc1269..05f89b96 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -3849,10 +3849,8 @@ No space is allowed between the @option{-o} and @var{file}, if @var{file} is supplied. @quotation NOTE -Due to the way @command{gawk} has evolved, with this option -your program is still executed. This will change in the -next major release such that @command{gawk} will only -pretty-print the program and not run it. +In the past, this option would also execute your program. +This is no longer the case. @end quotation @item @option{-O} @@ -4338,11 +4336,6 @@ two regexp matchers that @command{gawk} uses internally. (There aren't supposed to be differences, but occasionally theory and practice don't coordinate with each other.) -@item GAWK_NO_PP_RUN -If this variable exists, then when invoked with the @option{--pretty-print} -option, @command{gawk} skips running the program. This variable will -not survive into the next major release. - @item GAWK_STACKSIZE This specifies the amount by which @command{gawk} should grow its internal evaluation stack, when needed. @@ -27510,8 +27503,8 @@ When called this way, @command{gawk} ``pretty prints'' the program into @file{awkprof.out}, without any execution counts. @quotation NOTE -The @option{--pretty-print} option still runs your program. -This will change in the next major release. +Once upon a time, the @option{--pretty-print} option would also run +your program. This is is no longer the case. @end quotation @c ENDOFRANGE awkp @c ENDOFRANGE proawk |