1 Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
4 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
5 notice and this notice are preserved.
7 This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it
8 is variable even then). Non-Unix systems may have other limits.
10 # of fields in a record: MAX_LONG
11 Length of input record: MAX_INT
12 Length of output record: unlimited
13 Size of a field: MAX_INT
14 Size of a printf string: MAX_INT
15 Size of a literal string: MAX_INT
16 Characters in a character class: 2^(# of bits per byte)
17 # of file redirections: unlimited
18 # of pipe redirections: min(# of processes per user, # of open files)
19 double-precision floating point
20 Length of source line: unlimited
21 Number of input records in one file: MAX_LONG
22 Number of input records total: MAX_LONG