> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:22:37 -0800 > Accept-Language: en-US > acceptlanguage: en-US > > >If you're then passing that wildcard list to a program, you could very well > >be exceeding the maximum argument length limit of your shell. > > > No, I isolated this so there is nothing else, only > foobar: \ > $(wildcard \ > <file path> \ > <file path> \ > (... 50000 file paths, average 100 characters each) > <file path>\ > ) > > And then > > >make foobar > > produces > > >make.exe -r foobar > make.exe: Interrupt/Exception caught (code = 0xc00000fd, addr = 0x4227d3)
Probably we use alloca, and this blows up the stack. 50K file names 100 characters each is about 0.5MB. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
