Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!bellcore!faline!ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!shap From: shap@sfsup.UUCP (J.S.Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Any Linkers which take arb. length names? Message-ID: <2413@sfsup.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 22:23:11 EST Article-I.D.: sfsup.2413 Posted: Thu Nov 26 22:23:11 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 18:55:34 EST Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA Lines: 16 Summary: Looking for a linker 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