Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Reserved names in ANSI C Message-ID: <1989Jul1.234330.28732@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <13680@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1598@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <875@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <316@mountn.dec.com> <884@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <321@mountn.dec.com> <461@algor2.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1 Jul 89 23:43:30 GMT In article <461@algor2.UUCP> jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler) writes: >Whose linker was this, anyway, that we are going to spend the next two >decades wrecking our code for? Any linker that supports the bare minimum for FORTRAN. There are more such linkers in the world than you'd think. > (Couldn't the ANSI C committee have >found a linker somewhere that was restricted to 5 characters... Can you say "Data General"? I knew you could! :-) Fortunately, as I understand it, even DG agreed that this was DG's mistake, and nobody seriously suggested munging the standard to match. -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu