lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton) (10/03/89)
I recently saw some machine generated code that passed many, many arguments in one argument list. Assuming that they are split across lines so as not to exceed any line length limit (509? I forget), is there a limit on the number of arguments allowed? I can imagine that some argument passing schemes might run into trouble at quite small values. I'm not advocating this (we've fixed the code to do it's work in other ways) but I did wonder... Robert
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/03/89)
In article <5002@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton) writes: >is there a limit on the number of arguments allowed? ... ANSI C does not promise that it is possible to pass arguments at all. POSIX does set some minima. -- Nature is blind; Man is merely | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology shortsighted (and improving). | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu