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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
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Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 14:48:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 14:48:16 1987
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Summary: easy solution


Go ahead and use as many characters as you like for external (and internal)
names.  If the target linker (or compiler) chokes, use a handy
utility like "police", posted to the net a while ago.  "police reads a 'C'
source file and replaces identifiers not unique within N characters with
(hopefully) unique subtitutions generated with a CRC of full name.

A shell script subtitute for 'cpp' can run it automatically on all your
source by filtering the output of the real 'cpp'.  If your real 'cpp' barfs,
get 'cccp' from GNU.

I can send 'police' to those that didn't get it.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<stuart@bms-at.uucp>
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