Re: [fpc-devel] Maximum symbol length -- answer needed

2018-06-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 22/06/18 22:49, bla...@blaise.ru wrote: On 22.06.2018 21:42, Jonas Maebe wrote: The rationale for the above is that they need symbols that are longer than 255 characters. And such symbols could not be shortened by hashing heads or tails? The type information must be fully encoded in the

Re: [fpc-devel] Maximum symbol length -- answer needed

2018-06-23 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-devel
Am 23.06.2018 um 10:48 schrieb Jonas Maebe: I would propose to switch all targets to use use ansistrings for symbol names. Is this the consensus? Personally, if I had any stake in this, I would be against it. I mean, FPC is already slower than DCC. I doubt this is a major contributor to

Re: [fpc-devel] Maximum symbol length -- answer needed

2018-06-23 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 23/06/18 11:19, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote: But aren't there output formats that do have length restrictions for symbol names? I take it that ELF and PE/COFF won't be problematic, but what about those used for OS/2, DOS, etc.? If needed somewhere, symbol names could be shortened in the

Re: [fpc-devel] Maximum symbol length -- answer needed

2018-06-23 Thread nickysn
On Sat, 2018-06-23 at 11:19 +0200, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote: > Am 23.06.2018 um 10:48 schrieb Jonas Maebe: > > > > > > I would propose to switch all targets to use use ansistrings > > > > for > > > > symbol names. > > > > > > Is this the consensus? > > > > > > Personally, if I had any