Not just variables. When I was doing 68k assembly, even around year 2000, the assembler had a limit of 8 bytes for all labels. So, functions, branches, jumps, e

Not just variables. When I was doing 68k assembly, even around year 2000, the assembler had a limit of 8 bytes for all labels. So, functions, branches, jumps, etc all limited to 8 byte labels. I was in college at the time and any sort of external linker or anything was beyond us at the time, so it meant all of our programs were in one monolithic file. It was hard to manage and give meaningful names by hand to labels in a 40k LOC assembly file where every label had to both be unique and only the first 8 bytes mattered.