From: Michael S. Zick <mszick@goquest.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Old bug: the 14-character limit.
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 02:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03052321064100.01644@wolf686> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305232053.h4NKrKZ16422@greed.delorie.com>
On Friday 23 May 2003 03:53 pm, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Is there a documented upper limit on file name length for the gcc tree?
>
> I don't know of any hard limits, but as long as files are unique in
> the 8.3 characters (i.e. first 8 characters of the basename, first 3
> characters of the extension), even DJGPP won't care about the length.
>
> IIRC Windows has a hard upper limit on total path size, but I forget
> what it is. DJGPP's MAXPATH is 260 (for LFN; 80 for SFN), which is
> probably related to the Windows limit.
Some GNU/Linux systems use:
[root@wolf686 mszick]# stat -f /dev/hda
File: "/dev/hda"
ID: 0 0 Namelen: 255 Type: EXT2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-24 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-23 19:41 Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-23 19:52 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-25 18:17 ` Andris Pavenis
2003-05-23 20:44 ` Laurent GUERBY
2003-05-23 20:45 ` Neil Booth
2003-05-23 20:53 ` Mike Stump
2003-05-23 20:53 ` Phil Edwards
2003-05-23 20:54 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-23 21:34 ` Laurent GUERBY
2003-05-23 21:53 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-24 9:27 ` Laurent GUERBY
2003-05-24 14:23 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-24 2:19 ` Michael S. Zick [this message]
2003-05-23 19:44 Nathanael Nerode
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