At 4:23 PM +0200 3/29/01, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>Is there a maximal length for SysLib names? (the name pointed to
>by the first entry in the library dispatch table, i.e., the one
>that you pass the SysLibFind) I can't find any mention of
>such limitation. Can I assume it can be arbitrary long?
There doesn't appear to be a hard-coded limit on the length of a database name as far
as the name-search routines are concerned; they either use StrCompare or an unrolled
length-independent variant of StrCompare. However, other parts of the OS do have
limits on the length of names, for example, 32 bytes for the names of memory cards,
storage heaps, etc. So it looks like you're safe if you keep the library name to 32
characters or less (31 for name + 1 for C-string terminator). The various tools which
generate prc files probably also have built-in limitations.
Regards,
Jim Schram
Palm Incorporated
Partner Engineering
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