Significant name length list

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From: Dave Howorth
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 10:46

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In article <33148@apple.Apple.COM> Jonathan Patrick Leech writes:
>    How about if someone identifies the offending environments.
>Presumably linkers introduced in the future will not suffer under the
>6-character restriction, so people willing to flush the currently
>offending systems from their porting base could work with a more
>flexible limit.
>    Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
>    Apple Integrated Systems

I think this is an excellent idea, so lets do it!  We can be positive
by building a list open to all compilers which gives the implementation
limits they impose.  We should collect:

- compiler/linker/platform name and version
- operating system (UN*X, M*-DOS, other)
- ANSI (yes/no)
- internal name significant length
- external name significant length
- external name case significant (yes/no)
- date for 31 character case significant external name version

I am looking for this information for some work I am doing, and am
prepared to collate and summarise to save net bandwidth.  I would
particularly welcome statements direct from compiler and hardware
vendors!

So mail me with what you know!

Dave Howorth  : djh@datlog.co.uk : +44 1 863 0383
Data Logic, Queens House, Greenhill Way, Harrow HA1 1YR, ENGLAND

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From: djh@datlog.co.uk ( Dave Howorth )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Significant name length list
Summary: Lets build one!
Message-ID: <2146@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk>
Date: 19 Jul 89 10:46:59 GMT
References: <GEOFF.89Jun11231924@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> <2619@yunexus.UUCP> <547@cybaswan.UUCP> <1989Jul14.162834.2721@utzoo.uucp> <33148@apple.Apple.COM>
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