[LLVMdev] How to deal with potentially unlimited count/length symbol names?

[edA-qa mort-ora-y]

On 19/06/13 19:23, Eli Friedman wrote:
> I think you've covered all the possible implementations.
> 
> In terms of just generating long names, LLVM and common platforms can
> handle long names reasonably well because C++ often uses such names.
>  Also, the Itanium C++ ABI has a scheme to compress repeated uses of the
> same type which might be of interest; see
> http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling-compression .
> 
> In terms of a registry, you might want to consider whether these helpers
> actually need to be exposed across libraries.

Annoyingly, the larger the type the more important it is to share -- for
small types everything will just be inlined so it doesn't matter.

Any idea on what the limit of a name can be? I'll try a compression like
system as well, but I will likely have to truncate at some point (where
I can add a hash).

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