[Haskell-cafe] Re: Failure in GHC compilation

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:51:47PM +0000, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> Esa Ilari Vuokko <eivuokko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> [..]
> > It's exactly what it says...too long argument list (it's limited in Windows.)
> [..]
> 
> I am just curious - is there a OS, where the argument list is not
> limited (like in limits.h under Unix/Posix)?

No, that would require an infinite amount of address space.  Even if you
have exabytes of swap, argv[] has to be all concurrently addressable.

Stefan