1 This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it
2 is variable even then). Non-Unix systems may have other limits.
4 # of fields in a record: MAX_LONG
5 Length of input record: MAX_INT
6 Length of output record: unlimited
7 Size of a field: MAX_INT
8 Size of a printf string: MAX_INT
9 Size of a literal string: MAX_INT
10 Characters in a character class: 2^(# of bits per byte)
11 # of file redirections: unlimited
12 # of pipe redirections: min(# of processes per user, # of open files)
13 double-precision floating point
14 Length of source line: unlimited
15 Number of input records in one file: MAX_LONG
16 Number of input records total: MAX_LONG