Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!peter
From: peter@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Peter Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Converting long variable names to names <8 characters
Keywords: compilers convergent system V.2
Message-ID: <1091@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 5 Oct 90 04:38:23 GMT
Organization: Univ. Western Ontario, London Ont. CA
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Most code these days uses variables that have more than 8 significant
characters.  I recently purchased a system (a convergent CG1000
Miniframe -- a Motorola 68010 based system) that has a compiler that
has the original 8 character limit on variable names.  I haven't been
able to find a conversion routine that would systematically convert
long names to shorter ones.  Is there such a beast?

One of the primary candidates for conversion would be the gcc
compiler.  Once it is running, I suspect that file name problems would
be either eliminated or at least reduced (I have not yet determined
the limitations of the linker).  Is there either a version of gcc that
has been hand converted to 8 character names or a binary that would be
compatible with my machine available?

I'll try to follow this group for a while (not my usual haunt) but
e-mail responses would be preferred.  I'll summarize to this group if
I get anything interesting back.
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