- * 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 argv
+ * and \a argc are valid and return a pointer to the writer-specific
+ * configuration data determined by these 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().