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kalberts16-May-17 3:18
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not program parameter (/argument), but related:

A few years ago, the group set down in our company to revise the coding rules tried to set a maximum source code line lenght of 80 chars. Our project leader immediately declared that our code was not to accept that limit: We had rules for creating C #define symbols that lead to symbols exceeding 80 chars (and every character in UPPERCASE). Actuall, we had several guys praising those rules (the same ones who were complaining about the 260 char file name length in FAT file systems).

Going even further back in time: I was working for a company selling their own Fortran compiler. One customer hit one ceiling: A function could have at most 99 parameters; he had more than that.

Another crazy hit-the-ceiling: A friend of mine had to extend a linker: Each module had an export table that was indexed by a signed 16-bit integer. One customer's project created a module which exported more than 32767 symbols. The quick fix was to double the maximum table size by making the index unsigned. The same project created a struct type definition of roughly 8300 lines of code. (That didn't break any limits, though.)

If noone breaks a limit, that limit serves no real purpose... Smile | :)
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