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> Thanks for the advice. Just out of curiosity - what is the reason
> for this behavior?

It's a limitation of the DOS API, so we can't directly fix it.  DJGPP
programs can call each other with longer command lines, using a custom
API, so using a Makefile basically avoids the DOS restriction by
reading the list of arguments from a file (the Makefile) then calling
gcc using DJGPP's API instead of the DOS API.

Alternately, you could list all the command line entries in a file,
and use the @file syntax:

	gcc @objects.lst

But Makefiles are useful for other reasons too.

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