In <DAVIDM.92Apr15111450@consilium.com> davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson) writes:

>Probably a dumb question, but I'll bet people will find it difficult to
>answer...

>Does anyone know what the upper limit on the length of the uniquely
>identifiable part of the symbol names that AT&T C++ 3.0 generates?  Does it
>stay within the (I believe ANSI-C) 31 character limit?

ANSI-C only states that you must support at least 31 significant
initial characters for internal identifiers and 6 for external (2.4.2.1).
There is no upper limit.

For USL's cfront 3.0.x, you can define a macro called "DENSE" which will
limit it's name mangling algorithm to 31 characters.

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