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This section describes features and/or command-line options from
previous releases of gawk that either are not available in the
current version or are still supported but deprecated (meaning that
they will not be in a future release).
The arbitrary precision arithmetic feature is deprecated as of
gawk version 5.2.
Use of -M/--bignum produces a warning message.
The feature will be removed in the release of 2024.