Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:23:00 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: c1args.c patches
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> According the POSIX, the correct thing to do is to NOT define ARG_MAX
> at all in limits.h, if its value is indeterminate.  In those cases,
> applications may use #ifdef to detect if they should use ARG_MAX
> (which, if defined, must be constant) or call sysconf().

Then I think, removing ARG_MAX from limits.h and improving
sysconf() would be the best solution (but I have no time
to make the sysconf patch).

Robert