[fpc-devel] Re: dominant short strings in compiler source

[Peter Vreman]

>
>Also assembler symbols/labels should get extended to strings > 255 in the 
>future because there is already a bug open in which it is demonstrated 
>that it is possible to create too long labels which makes a program 
>uncompilable.
>Or some scheme derived which makes sure that labels never get larger than 
>255 chars.
>(Typed constant within 2 or 3 nested functions)

This is something you really don't want unless you want to make the 
compiler 4x slower.

There is already special code in the compiler to truncate long manglednames
Peter