Extension Version String (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
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17.4.5.3 Registering An Extension Version String
You can register a version string that indicates the name and version of your extension with gawk
, as follows:
void register_ext_version(const char *version);
- Register the string pointed to by
version
withgawk
. Note thatgawk
does not copy theversion
string, so it should not be changed.
gawk
prints all registered extension version strings when it is invoked with the --version
option.