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Re: How hard would it be to BORG the fixproto stuff?
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at pacbell dot net>
- Subject: Re: How hard would it be to BORG the fixproto stuff?
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 19 May 2001 20:06:40 -0300
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zackw at stanford dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <3B05A2F8.A78609A5@veritas.com>
On May 18, 2001, Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com> wrote:
> To do that, the simplest approach is to just stuff all the
> scripts into massive strings and feed them to a system(3) call.
Two problems:
1) there are C compilers that won't accept strings longer than 511
bytes.
2) there are OSs with limits on command line lengths, and both system
and popen essentially run /bin/sh -c "The command".
Yes, this is an issue for the executable branch of libtool too :-)
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