Sisyphus wrote: > > I don't see how that changes anything. The shell just reads the command > > from the file and then constructs the arguments from that. It does > > nothing to shorten the actual gcc command that must be executed. > > > > I believe it's a limitation on the number of characters that can be typed > into the command prompt, rather than a limitation on the size of the command > that can be executed. But we're talking about an invocation of GCC from a Makefile, not from typing anything directly to a prompt. Or at least, that was my interpretation of the question. Regardless of whether there is a limit of what you can paste into CMD.EXE, there is also a limit of what you can pass to a subprocess in CreateProcess(). Brian
