So, is there a reason not to make the arg. list length grow dynamicly?
So, is there a reason not to make the arg. list length grow dynamicly?
Posted Aug 26, 2007 23:22 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: So, is there a reason not to make the arg. list length grow dynamicly? by wolfgang.oertl
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Shouldn't be a problem. Apparently autoconf starts large and works backward. (I'm just relaying a discussion I saw on LKML though; I don't have first-hand knowledge here)
Posted Aug 29, 2007 13:30 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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(IIRC, it used to start small and work up, but that was much too slow).
Indeed it does (although actually it's libtool).So, is there a reason not to make the arg. list length grow dynamicly?