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- This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it
- is variable even then). Non-Unix systems may have other limits.
- All cases below where MAX_SHORT is specified will be increased
- to MAX_INT in a future release.
-
- # of fields in a record: MAX_INT
- Length of input record: MAX_SHORT
- Length of output record: unlimited
- Size of a field: MAX_SHORT
- Size of a printf string: MAX_SHORT
- Size of a literal string: MAX_SHORT
- Characters in a character class: 2^(# of bits per byte)
- # of file redirections: unlimited
- # of pipe redirections: min(# of processes per user, # of open files)
- double-precision floating point
- Length of source line: unlimited
-