Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Failure in GHC compilation

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:51:47PM +0000, Georg Sauthoff wrote:

Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:

Hi,

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It's exactly what it says...too long argument list (it's limited in Windows.) [..]

I am just curious - is there a OS, where the argument list is not limited (like in limits.h under Unix/Posix)?

No, that would require an infinite amount of address space. Even if you have exabytes of swap, argv[] has to be all concurrently addressable. Stefan