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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A feature I'd like to see (was C flaws)
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 00:53:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 00:53:29 1987
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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
>

The Data General C compiler can do this.  I used it once to get ahold
of the `BLANK COMMON' area used by some Fortran routines.  If I remember
correctly a typical use might be something like:

	float p[500] $name(".BLNK.");



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