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

[Manuel Collado]

El 08/01/2018 a las 16:25, Andrew J. Schorr escribió:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 07:39:17AM -0700, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > W.R.T. End rule order, yes, you do have to make sure that assert.awk
> > (or a theoretical abort.awk) is the first part of the whole awk program.
>
> ...  I wonder whether it could be implemented in
> an extension library. I suppose the function could simply call 'exit', and that
> would eliminate the ordering fragility of using an include library.
> ... The problem
> with using a library is that we lose the ability to retain the default exit
> status if none is provided to the function...

What about an abort() extension that just invokes a 'fatal' error? It 
can be a partial solution. No custom exit status, but it can be part of 
the error message.

Regards.
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Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado