Re: DEC Unix and string too long with templates

[Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>]

> I have once again run into the symbol too long error message from the
> DEC Unix assembler.  When running DEC Unix 3.2, the simple solution was to
> turn debugging off.  Now with 4.0, I can still get the error even without
> debugging.  Corey Kosak and Joe Buck posted back in October that the common
> work-around is to subclass string.

The basic idea is simple enough:

class MyString : public string {
public:
	// declare constructors
	// declare assignment operators
};

that is, you have to redeclare the things that don't inherit.

> Is it possible to use GAS under DEC Unix to get around this problem?

Yes (gas has no limit on symbol length).  Even so, the names are too long,
meaning you spend a lot of disk space on debug information.
The snapshots have an experimental solution, the -fsquangle flag, which
uses a new name mangling scheme that is a lot more compact for template
names ... but it will be a while before that can be made available.