Re: Size of constructors

From: Roedy Green (look-on_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 05/11/04


Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 22:28:16 GMT

On Mon, 10 May 2004 22:08:04 GMT, Roedy Green
<look-on@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote or quoted :

>That limit would come from 16 bit jump offsets in byte code. If they
>are signed, that would limit you to 32K. You would never write code
>this long manually. But you might generate it mechanically.

even if there signed, if you allowed wrap around, you could still have
64K.

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