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From: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ipse dixit)
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Subject: Re: Prepending _ in C external names necessary?
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 09:40:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 09:40:46 1985
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In article <9109@ritcv.UUCP> spw2562@ritcv.UUCP (Fishhook) writes:
>now suppose there's a symbol dosome defined by the assembler.  By prepending
>you avoid a conflict.  with appending, you don't.

Ah, but all the assembler symbols like r6 are short. If the C symbol is
long enough to exceed the significance limit it certainly won't clash
either. Unless you define some long symbols in assembler, that is.
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