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Re: SCO-GCC mailing list ??

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From: Sean Eric Fagan
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 20:31
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In article <463@stephsf.stephsf.com> wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England) writes:
>  Most of the smaller utilities (bison etc ) do not require any special
>  changes.   Use rcc (AT&T compiler) and not cc (Microsoft)  because
>  cc truncates variable and function names longer than about ~20 chars. 

cc truncates external symbols at 31 characters, unless you tell it to
truncate at a smaller size.  (The actual limit is 32, but external symbols
get an underscore prepended, which causes 31 characters to be left.)

I have successfully built most of the GNU utilities with cc, as both COFF
and x.out binaries.

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