From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Corey Kosak <kosak@cs.cmu.edu>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: Greg Galloway <gregg@eoeml.gtri.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: C++ and DEC Unix: string too long
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <199710282321.PAA08249@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg01199.html

> Has anyone got EGCS/C++ to work on an Alpha under DEC Unix 3.2?
> I get an error about string too long because the mangled name of
> a template instantiation (hash_map in this case) is 4144 chars
> long.

Amazing that it's the 90's and some people [DEC] still write software with
arbitrary fixed limits.  "Surely no one would ever want a symbol longer than
4K characters."

The standard workaround, as far as I know, is to subclass string, something
like

class mystring : public string {
  ...
};

`mystring' needs to have constructor stubs for all the constructors in
`string', plus probably stubs for the overloaded operators as well.