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Re: piecewise linking fix
From: |
Peter O'Gorman |
Subject: |
Re: piecewise linking fix |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:52:07 +0900 |
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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
| I realized that piecewise linking uses relocatable objects. Seeing that
| we may need this for long input lines, I guess I will eventually look at
| the other uses again as well (not soon) (there have been bugreports).
|
| But I figured, hey, why not test whether piecewise linking works at all,
| by faking a low max_cmd_len.
|
| Below is a patch which adds a test to that extent to branch-1-5, plus a
| fix for the bug it uncovered, very similarly to how that was already
| done in branch-2-0. OK to apply to 1-5? If you disagree with the test,
| I can also just check in the directory fix.
|
| Forward-port of the test will follow.
|
| (It may be that someone actually reported this issue, and also a patch,
| but I don't remember and can't find it now.)
|
Do you know how come the pdemo test didn't catch this? It changes the
max_cmd_len to 12 in pdemo-conf.test.
This patch looks okay to me.
Peter
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Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
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