Notes (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)

Next: Basic Concepts, Previous: Installation, Up: Top   [Contents][Index]

---

Appendix C Implementation Notes

This appendix contains information mainly of interest to implementers and maintainers of gawk. Everything in it applies specifically to gawk and not to other implementations.

• Compatibility Mode		How to disable certain gawk extensions.
• Additions		Making Additions To gawk.
• Future Extensions		New features that may be implemented one day.
• Implementation Limitations		Some limitations of the implementation.
• Extension Design		Design notes about the extension API.
• Notes summary		Summary of implementation notes.