no limit on strings and on input line length; document

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diff --git a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me
index ca7c56e..b04917e 100644 (file)
--- a/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me
+++ b/usr/src/old/as.vax/PSD.doc/asdocs4.me
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\"
 .\"    Copyright (c) 1982 Regents of the University of California
-.\"    @(#)asdocs4.me 1.8 %G%
+.\"    @(#)asdocs4.me 1.9 %G%
 .\"
 .EQ
 delim $$
@@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ limit       what
 _
 Arbitrary\**   Files to assemble
 BUFSIZ Significant characters per name
-BUFSIZ Characters per input line
-2048   Characters per string
+Arbitrary      Characters per input line
+Arbitrary      Characters per string
 Arbitrary      Symbols
 4      Text segments
 4      Data segments
@@ -317,3 +317,8 @@ will allow the peephole optimizer to produce much better
 loop optimizations,
 since it currently assumes the worst
 case about the size of the loop body.
+.pp
+The string temporary file is not put in memory when the -V flag is set.
+The string table in the generated a.out contains some strings
+and names that are never referenced from the symbol table;
+the loader removes these unreferenced strings, however.