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'
1 one file
1 Number of input records       'MAX_LONG'
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1 Number of pipe redirections   min(number of processes per user, number
1                               of open files)
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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