Understanding MAXVARS in lparser.c

[Steve Hewson <stevehewson15@...>]

Hi,

Inspired from a Reddit post, I see that the maximum number of local variables within a scope is 200 ( as defined in lparser.c ).

Here's the snippet:

/* maximum number of local variables per function (must be smaller than 250, due to the bytecode format) */

#define MAXVARS   200

Question-1:

I'd like to know why the comment states 250 and the value for MAXVARS is set to 200.

Question-2:

As a layman, I'd assume the numbers to be powers of 2, like 256, but why's it 200 or 256?

Cheers,

SteveH