struct Location size

[zjh]

On Tuesday, 9 May 2023 at 03:51:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:


> So if we leave 8 bits for column, 1..256, that gives 24 for the 
> line number, which gives room for 16,777,216 lines which ought 
> to be enough, and no rescanning necessary.


It can represent projects less than 1000,777,216 bytes, but 
projects exceeding 1000MB are not sufficient. However, most of 
them are sufficient.