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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.   
      
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