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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: A feature I'd like to see (was C flaws)
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 10:16:06 EDT
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In article <15522@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>One feature I'd like to see in C (or any other language) is the
>ability to bind an arbitrary C legal name to an arbitrary machine
>specific external.  For example, if I wanted the machine symbol
>"foo-bar" I could do something like...
>
>    equivelence int foo_bar "foo-bar";
>
>-Ron

  This was implemented in the Waterloo GCOS C compiler (for the
Honeywell-Bull DPS-8 and 6).  At the time the syntax was (approximatly)
"#equivalence foo_bar foo.bar", and later "#pragma equivalence foo_bar
foo.bar".  I believe this was in response to the standardization
effort, but I wasn't the acceptor's bug-fix man by then, so I don't
know.... 

 --dave (God's Chosen Operating System is alive and living on the Riviera) c-b
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