 | | There are many limits imposed both by the operating system and by the native hardware architecture; these include such things as the maximum positive integer, the minimum decimal value of a floating-point number, the maximum number of characters in a terminal input buffer, the maximum length of a filename, and so forth. Prior to the adoption of the POSIX standard, these limits were defined in various include files and the programmer had to examine those to determine where items were defined. | |
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