Re: limitations clarification request

[Ed Morton]

Sounds good, thanks!

Ed Morton

> On Jun 10, 2020, at 3:05 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> 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