gawk: Implementation Limitations
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1 C.4 Some Limitations of the Implementation
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1 This following table describes limits of 'gawk' on a Unix-like system
1 (although it is variable even then). Other systems may have different
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1 Item Limit
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1 Characters in a character 2^(number of bits per byte)
1 class
1 Length of input record 'MAX_INT'
1 Length of output record Unlimited
1 Length of source line Unlimited
1 Number of fields in a 'MAX_LONG'
1 record
1 Number of file redirections Unlimited
1 Number of input records in 'MAX_LONG'
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1 Number of input records 'MAX_LONG'
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1 Number of pipe redirections min(number of processes per user, number
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1 Numeric values Double-precision floating point (if not
1 using MPFR)
1 Size of a field 'MAX_INT'
1 Size of a literal string 'MAX_INT'
1 Size of a printf string 'MAX_INT'
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