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LIMITATIONS
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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