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Article #327Re: Reserved names in ANSI C
From: Jonathan Patrick Leech
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 18:37
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 18:37
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In article <1989Jul14.162834.2721@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <547@cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
>>Yeah, but though you may be able to use more, a 'strictly conforming' program
>>can't, otherwise it won't port to sites with 6-character linkers. In other
>>words 6 characters *is* the real limit.
>Right. This is a fact of life now; it is not an invention of X3J11.
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.
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Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
Apple Integrated Systems
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!leech From: leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Reserved names in ANSI C Message-ID: <33148@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 14 Jul 89 18:37:53 GMT References: <GEOFF.89Jun11231924@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> <2619@yunexus.UUCP> <547@cybaswan.UUCP> <1989Jul14.162834.2721@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 17