[boost] Re: Warning about a truncated decorated name with smart_ptr.hpp

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-10-28 11:17:11

Gaddy Barchana-Lorand wrote:

>I have downloaded the smart_ptr.hpp header file, and when compiling
my code
>(with MSVC 6.0) I get the the C4503 warning (decorated name length
exceeded,
>name was truncated).

As an aside, someone at the C++ committee meeting last week reported
decorated name lengths of 30,000 characters!  Didn't say what
compiler.

The cause was templates with templated parameters to a great depth.
Some of the implementors were talking about shorter ways to mangle
names.

--Beman