1This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it
2is variable even then).  Non-Unix systems may have other limits.
3
4# of fields in a record:  MAX_LONG
5Length of input record:  MAX_INT
6Length of output record:  unlimited
7Size of a field:  MAX_INT
8Size of a printf string:  MAX_INT
9Size of a literal string:  MAX_INT
10Characters 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)
13double-precision floating point
14Length of source line:  unlimited
15Number of input records in one file: MAX_LONG
16Number of input records total: MAX_LONG
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