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From: mvh@cbnap.UUCP (M.L. Vonder Haar x4126 3E257)
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Subject: Re: C++ preprocessor wanted
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Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 08:40:02 EDT
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In article <12069@watnot.UUCP> cgoudeseune@watnot.UUCP (center of gravity) writes:
>I hear all these complaints that most C's only support 8-character
>identifiers, and the C++ preprocessor *needs* thirty-two.
>
>Say we use only 7-character letters-only identifiers.
>26^7 = 8 031 810 176.
>Seeing as how any C++ preprocessor is unlikely to produce over 8 billion
>different identifiers, is there a good reason why a little filter couldn't
>be inserted between C++'s output and C's input to shrink the size of these
>huge identifiers to a manageable size.
>Sure, it's slow; we've got a 8 MHz 68000.  Sure, it's a kludge; it works!
>(I hope)
>
	I just hope you never have a bug.  Sdb is only fair as a debugger
	for C++.  But if you generated names that could not be easily
	transformed by programmers to what they wrote in C++ sdb would be
	just about useless.
	The way I see it you'll need to write your own debugger at the
	same time.

Mark L Vonder Haar
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