Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you're saying.  The limitation on command-line
> > length can be in either the shell, or the OS.  In Windows 2000, the
> > limitation comes primarily from the Windows command shell.
>
>
> When gcc.exe invokes cc1.exe, the limitation is not the command shell.

Correct.

In Windows, there is much less of a limitation there; CreateProcess has 
a 32K limit.  However, Win2K's command shell was much more limited. 
Therefore, the primary problem is in getting arguments into the driver; 
getting things from the driver to subprocesses is much less problematic, 
in practice.

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