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|    hb0815 to John Reagan    |
|    Re: Binutils    |
|    10 Sep 25 00:22:21    |
      From: mw40171@mucweb.de              On 9/9/25 17:16, John Reagan wrote:       > On ELF-based systems, the linker doesn't care about symbol length       > anymore. You can easily have symbols with 1000s of characters       > (including non-printing ones).       Excluding the obvious non-printing: '\0'. :-)              > The librarian can handle longer names as       > well, but you have to pick a max-length when creating the OLB. The       > default may not be large enough for you.       I don't know if that recently changed, but the ELF librarian's symbol       names are limited to 1024 characters. That's a hard limit. And it's the       default.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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