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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Reserved names in ANSI C
Message-ID: <10493@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Jul 89 16:50:20 GMT
References: <GEOFF.89Jun11231924@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> <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> <1989Jul1.234330.28732@utzoo.uucp> <3364@buengc.BU.EDU>
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In article <3364@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Which begs the question:  how difficult is it to have standard-conforming
>implementations implement a linker that handles a larger name space?

Many compiler implementors simply do not have the option of changing
or replacing the system linker.