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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 03:24:13 EDT
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> Few of the apps will actually change no matter what, but the "changing"
> standard will require some of our favorite utilities to be "changed"
> 
> not just:
> cc
> asm
> ld
> but also:
> dump
> sdb
> [all the trace stuff]
> [all the archive stuff (ar...)]

Excuse me, but if these are all UNIX utilities (as I infer they are from the
presence of e.g. "sdb"), then on most machines these days they all support
"flexnames" which means they support external names lots longer than 31
characters; thus, the "'changing' standard" won't require anything to be done
to them in that regard.  Of course, on most UNIX machines they don't support
ANSI C, so that will have to change....
	Guy Harris
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