From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: gregg@eoeml.gtri.gatech.edu (Greg Galloway)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: DEC Unix and string too long with templates
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 19:47:00 -0000
Message-id: <199805050049.RAA09176@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <199805041516.LAA03801@nospokes.gtri.gatech.edu>
X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00111.html

> 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.