[Info-vax] VMS internals design, was: Re: BASIC and AST routines

[John Reagan]

On Friday, December 3, 2021 at 5:06:27 AM UTC-5, hb wrote:
> On 12/2/21 9:04 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> > Mangling is in some ways used as a workaround for linker limits around
> > symbol resolution (as is used on OpenVMS), ... 
> 
> If you refer to the length of the symbol name, there is no limit in the 
> current VMS linker other than the amount of memory available to the 
> linker when linking the image. If you refer to another limit or to the 
> VAX and Alpha linker, let us know.
On the other hand, the librarian does have some length limits but the max/default is 1024.

Almost all of the imposed limits are in the compiler dating back to the days of the VAX linker and the Alpha linker.