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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2020-06-10 09:57:50 +0300
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2020-06-10 09:57:50 +0300
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Improve doc on limits, increase limit on size of a token.
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@@ -42850,18 +42850,18 @@ different limits.
@multitable @columnfractions .40 .60
@headitem Item @tab Limit
@item Characters in a character class @tab 2^(number of bits per byte)
-@item Length of input record @tab @code{MAX_INT}
+@item Length of input record in bytes @tab @code{ULONG_MAX}
@item Length of output record @tab Unlimited
@item Length of source line @tab Unlimited
-@item Number of fields in a record @tab @code{MAX_LONG}
+@item Number of fields in a record @tab @code{ULONG_MAX}
@item Number of file redirections @tab Unlimited
@item Number of input records in one file @tab @code{MAX_LONG}
@item Number of input records total @tab @code{MAX_LONG}
@item Number of pipe redirections @tab min(number of processes per user, number of open files)
@item Numeric values @tab Double-precision floating point (if not using MPFR)
-@item Size of a field @tab @code{MAX_INT}
-@item Size of a literal string @tab @code{MAX_INT}
-@item Size of a printf string @tab @code{MAX_INT}
+@item Size of a field in bytes @tab @code{ULONG_MAX}
+@item Size of a literal string in bytes @tab @code{ULONG_MAX}
+@item Size of a printf string in bytes @tab @code{ULONG_MAX}
@end multitable
@node Extension Design