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Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:21:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:09:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andi Kleen:
>
> > Linux has a similar limit which comes from the OS (normally around 32k)
> > So it would be useful there for extreme cases too.
>
> IIRC, FreeBSD has a rather low limit, too. And there were discussions
> about command line length problems in the GCC build process on VMS.
I think MS linker can take a file as command line argument or something
like that. It may come handy sometimes. BTW, will it help C++ export
implementation?
H.J.