Why duplicate symbols in 1.0.1 and not 1.0 ???

Brad M. Garcia bgarcia@fore.com
Mon Jan 19 05:49:00 GMT 1998


My ld is gnu ld.  Does gld have this same type of limitation?

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Mike Stump wrote:

> Tell your ld vendor that handling less that 1,000,000 characters in a
> symbol name isn't useful.  :-)/2  On the otherhand, Joe Buck has a
> symbol shortener that is on the right path.  Maybe someone wants to
> dust it off, run it though the testsuite, and include it.
> 
> > From: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
> > HPUX 9.0, I suspect, has an ld with a maximum number of characters
> > less than that needed by g++.

Brad Garcia
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