> From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, make-w32@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:39:04 -0400 > > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 17:26 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > What advantage is there in using alloca? > > So, alloca() is nice because it's dynamic.
But it could get you in trouble if the file name in question is very long, since the stack is limited. > This doesn't seem to be as much of an issue on Windows where the max > path length appears to be much more strictly defined. The newer filesystems can go as far as 32K characters, but only for Unicode-formatted file names, and Make currently doesn't support that anyhow. Otherwise, the limit is 260 characters. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
