- * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options are
- * valid. On success, it should return a pointer to the writer-specific
- * configuration data determined by \a options. Note that this might be called
- * more than once with different values of \a options.
+ * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options
+ * are valid and return a pointer to the writer-specific configuration
+ * data determined by \a options. This function must either succeed or
+ * call exit(). Note that parse_config_or_die() might be called more
+ * than once with different values of \a options. \sa \ref
+ * free_config().