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C.6 Summary
gawk
’s extensions can be disabled with either the--traditional
option or with the--posix
option. The--parsedebug
option is available ifgawk
is compiled with ‘-DDEBUG
’.- The source code for
gawk
is maintained in a publicly accessible Git repository. Anyone may check it out and view the source. - Contributions to
gawk
are welcome. Following the steps outlined in this chapter will make it easier to integrate your contributions into the code base. This applies both to new feature contributions and to ports to additional operating systems. gawk
has some limits—generally those that are imposed by the machine architecture.- The extension API design was intended to solve a number of problems with the previous extension mechanism, enable features needed by the
xgawk
project, and provide binary compatibility going forward. - The previous extension mechanism is no longer supported and was removed from the code base with the 4.2 release.