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Re: [bug-gawk] inside awk script check that -M/--bignum given on command


From: arnold
Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] inside awk script check that -M/--bignum given on command line?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 03:39:05 -0700
User-agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08

"Jannick" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Good point, thanks. My program needs 30 bits of precision, so I am more than
> on the safe side here and no update circus needed. Great!

If all you need is 30 bits, why not use hardware floating point, which
is much faster?

> May I mention two tiny things for the manual which, of course, I will leave
> with you if you want to add that to the gawk documentation in some form:

Andy, please review and update as needed.

Thanks!

Arnold



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