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+2014-04-17 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawk.1: Remove the bit about single character programs overflowing
+ the parse stack. It doesn't seem to be true anymore.
+
2014-04-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* 4.1.1: Release tar ball made.
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. if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq
. \}
.\}
-.TH GAWK 1 "Mar 08 2014" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Apr 17 2014" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
.SH NAME
gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -3912,11 +3912,6 @@ The
.B \-F
option is not necessary given the command line variable assignment feature;
it remains only for backwards compatibility.
-.PP
-Syntactically invalid single character programs tend to overflow
-the parse stack, generating a rather unhelpful message. Such programs
-are surprisingly difficult to diagnose in the completely general case,
-and the effort to do so really is not worth it.
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR egrep (1),
.IR sed (1),