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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.
-
- # of fields in a record: MAX_INT
- Length of input record: MAX_INT
- Length of output record: unlimited
- Size of a field: MAX_INT
- Size of a printf string: MAX_INT
- Size of a literal string: MAX_INT
- 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
- Number of input records in one file: MAX_LONG
- Number of input records total: MAX_LONG
-