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From: phr@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Rubin)
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Subject: Re: C++ preprocessor wanted
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In article <1222@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes:
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>Filtering long identifiers into short (but not mnemonic) forms would
>work, I guess.  But since we also have a Megabyte, it is not reasonable
>to limit identifiers to anything less than 255 chars!  Come on, compiler
>makers: it's 1986!

If anyone is interested, note that the past few GNU Emacs distributions have
included a simple program that reads C source code and produces a file of
#define statements to map long identifiers into short ones.  It also
includes a replacement C Preprocesor (cpp) in case the one you are
currently using doesn't handle arbitrarily long identifiers.