B20.1: windows reports illegal instruction, when using many arguments

[Jorgo Bakker]

Hi All,
 
Running the script below gives a window message "illegal instruction...restart computer", if 
too many characters are on the command line.

    BASH.EXE-2.02$ ./run_ 998 trying 
    length=   9980 BASH.EXE-2.02$ ./run__ 998 trying 
    length=   9980 BASH.EXE-2.02$

Is the problem above a 
general one, or specific to my computer set-up? Problem created 
using CygWin32 with the gcc-2.95 release installed on a Win98 
platform.
 
Note that this gives problems when porting code. Makefiles may 
have a 'rm -rf $(OBJECTS)'. Of course it is possible to split the list of 
$(OBJECTS) up into smaller pieces (which I am doing right now), but I would like 
to minimize modifications.
 
Jorgo
 
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#!/bin/bash
 
number=0 numbers=
 
limit=1000 if [ x$1 != x ] ; then limit=$1 ; 
fi
 
while [ "x$number" != "x$limit" ]; 
do   number=$[ number + 1 ] #  numbers="$numbers 
DummyLongFileName.$number"   numbers="$numbers 
234567890" done
 
length=`echo $numbers|wc -c` echo "trying 
length=$length" rm -f $numbers
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