1993-06-18 04:22:21 +00:00
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This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it
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is variable even then). Non-Unix systems may have other limits.
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# of fields in a record: MAX_INT
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Length of input record: MAX_INT
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Length of output record: unlimited
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Size of a field: MAX_INT
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Size of a printf string: MAX_INT
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Size of a literal string: MAX_INT
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Characters in a character class: 2^(# of bits per byte)
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# of file redirections: unlimited
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# of pipe redirections: min(# of processes per user, # of open files)
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double-precision floating point
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Length of source line: unlimited
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1994-05-31 18:58:00 +00:00
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Number of input records in one file: MAX_LONG
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Number of input records total: MAX_LONG
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