id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
216	32Kb limit building .dll files	dmacias	bird	"In Harbour for OS/2 development ( www.harbour-project.org ) we face from long time a problem using os2gcc compilers when we try to build some .dll files

Tracing I found an now famous 32 Kb limit:
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Somewhere gcc is using 32 Kb limit for our case
    gcc --> emxomfld.exe ( ld.exe )
 
 ( or is OS/2 limit ?    :-)  )
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Below are first quick and clear Knut St. Osmundsen response

Thanks,
David Macias


Yes, this is an OS/2 limitation.  The usual workaround is to pass the arguments in a response file (emxomfld @filename.rsp).  Without checking all the relevant code, I'm pretty sure that the compiler/linker driver (gcc) will not create a response file when invoking sub programs like as, ld or emxomfld.  The easiest way to hack it into doing this would be to change pexecute() in libiberty/pexecute.c to create a response file for arguments exceeding, say, 24 KB.
http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/browser/branches/libc-0.6/src/gcc/libiberty/pexecute.c#L803

"	defect	assigned	normal	libc-0.7	gcc		normal