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diff --git a/LIMITATIONS b/LIMITATIONS new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8184c87a --- /dev/null +++ b/LIMITATIONS @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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 |