Any Linkers which take arb. length names?

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From: J.S.Shapiro
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1987 03:23

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As I understand it, external identifier names as understood
by MPW linker and Mac Linkers in general accept up to
31 character names. This is not enough for some languages,
notably C++, which mangle names in order to get them to
compile.

Is anyone aware of why this limitation exists, and whethet
there are linkers out there which circumvent it? I would be
willing to explore writing an Apple compatible linker for my
own use, but I don't have access to the object file format
anyplace obvious.

Actually, I would be interested in the object format regardless.
Any good sources for this?

Jon Shapiro

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Subject: Any Linkers which take arb. length names?
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Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 22:23:11 EST
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