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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "Re: Identifier significance CHALLENGE - (nf)"
Message-ID: <4424@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 20:49:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 20:49:09 1983
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Look at your K&R book.  Chapter 2, p. 33:

	"Only the first eight characters of an internal name are
	significant, although more may be used."

(They also mention that external names (i.e. globals) may have
less than 8 significant characters.)

So, a suggestion:

*Prepend* a unique identifier to those which are not already
unique.  For example, you might replace

	long_name_function () ...

with

	_1_long_name_function () ...

if "long_na" (or whatever the name becomes after compilation) is
not unique.  The next occurance might have "_2_" prepended.

The nice thing about this is that the original names are easy to
find (and, if necessary, recreate).
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci
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