Re: is this a bug?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> 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.