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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0000002freemSymbol Tablepublic2025-03-28 07:07
ReporterSerena Willis Assigned ToSerena Willis  
PriorityhighSeveritymajorReproducibilityN/A
Status assignedResolutionopen 
Product Versioncvs-current 
Target Version1.0 
Summary0000002: Extend symbol table string length
DescriptionShould change the length prefixes from one byte to 4 bytes, the low-order 3 bytes to be used for the length, and the high-order byte used for future flags.

This will increase maximum string length in local variables from 255 bytes to 16MiB.
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M DialectFREEM

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Serena Willis

2025-03-21 20:08

administrator   ~0000004

Note that this will also satisfy MDC extension X11/94-28 (Portable String Length).

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-03-20 20:33 Serena Willis New Issue
2025-03-20 20:33 Serena Willis Status new => assigned
2025-03-20 20:33 Serena Willis Assigned To => Serena Willis
2025-03-21 20:08 Serena Willis Note Added: 0000004
2025-03-21 20:08 Serena Willis File Added: 199407-187-190-x11-94-28-portable-string-length.pdf
2025-03-28 07:07 Serena Willis Category General => Symbol Table
2025-03-28 07:07 Serena Willis M Dialect => FREEM