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