Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:50:32PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is
what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options.
Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the
file is read, and the contents are treated as command-line options.
Huh? That should certainly be a feature of the shell, not the OS.
I'm not sure what you're saying. The limitation on command-line length
can be in either the shell, or the OS. In Windows 2000, the limitation
comes primarily from the Windows command shell.
On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have
feature.
Do you really want every application to work around a broken propritary
system?
I want GCC to work well for people, no matter what operating system they
are using. This is a feature that everyone who produces Windows-hosted
versions of GCC ends up implementing; I'd like to keep us all from
having to keep reinventing the wheel.
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