Re: limitations clarification request

[arnold]

Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:

> In the documentation section at 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Implementation-Limitations.html
>  
> we see some definitions including:
>
>     Item Limit
>     Length of input record                                 MAX_INT
>     Size of a field MAX_INT
>     Size of a literal string MAX_INT
>     Size of a printf string MAX_INT
>
> Could we have the updated to say what the units are for each:
>
>     Item Limit
>     Length of input record in foo                      MAX_INT
>     Size of a field in foo MAX_INT
>     Size of a literal string  in foo                        MAX_INT
>     Size of a printf string  in foo                        MAX_INT

The sizes are in bytes. I have updated the manual to reflect this and
also some of the limits to be ULONG_MAX.  The changes are in the repo.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Arnold