Re: check for max cmd line length

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:37:46AM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > the check for the maximum command line length is a bit harmful
> > on the Hurd, because the Hurd has no limit.  From reading the code,
> > it seems there is a safety check to bail out at 1 MB, but it is
> > excessive to check for that every time ltconfig runs.

Actually, I think there might be a bug.  I saw excessive memory consumption,
but it shouldn't happen with a 1 MB limit, should it?.  So I better test
this again. If it just takes a few seconds to run through the megabyte, we
don't really need to worry about it.

> Marcus:
> 
> Hmm.. I can't decide if this is good news or not. ;)  I think what
> needs to be done is to add some mechanism for telling Libtool
> that there is no maximum.  That would involve a check for Hurd
> and setting a flag in configury, then in the libtool script
> checks that skip the piecewise linking if the flag is set.

Ui, I got a stone rolling ;)
 
> I'll write this up when the merge is finished (or I'd have to
> do it twice).  So feel free to remind me if you don't see it happen.

I will, and I will also do one more test to see if what I saw was really
libtools fault.

Thanks,
Marcus

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