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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Getting hack to work on 7 character systems
Message-ID: <475@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 15:31:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: bms-at.475
Posted: Wed Sep  9 15:31:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 03:15:16 EDT
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Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: Police a better fix


A program called 'police' was posted to the net a while back.  It
is a much cleaner way of handling long names on a short name system.
It lexes the 'C' source replacing long identifiers with (almost always) unique 
short versions based on a 32bit CRC of the original.  (I encounterd no
collisions compiling GNU CC or HACK).  It works best as a special option
for 'cc' if you can make such.  Otherwise, some 'make' rules will do the job.

There were some minor bugs in 'police' such that it couldn't process
its own source.  The lexer didn't know about hex constants.  This was
easy to fix.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<stuart@bms-at.uucp>
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