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Subject: RE: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 13:09:48 EST
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From:     stuart@bms-at.uucp
Subject:  Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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To:       TGMIKEY@CCS.CSUSCC.CALSTATE.EDU


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.
--
Stuart D. Gathman    <stuart@bms-at.uucp>
            <..!{vrdxhqdgis}!bms-at!stuart>

===== Reply from Mike Khosraviani <TGMIKEY> ==========================

Would you, please, send me police?  Does it cost me anything?  If so, I think
I'll pass on it!!!!   I really appreciate it. Thank you.


Mike