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Re: Need underscores for m68k/coff

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From: Richard Henderson
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:00
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In article <17741.848960224@segfault.monkeys.com>,
Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@monkeys.com> wrote:
>
>The longstanding and general tradition is that when/if you are using COFF,
>all C language identifiers get an underscore prepended to them as they are
>being changed into assembly-level names.

On the contrary, it was COFF that broke with that tradition.  I
present as an example the SVR2 m68k-coff host from which I post
that does not use leading underscores.


r~
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