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From: chute@chutepc.UUCP (Chris Chute MD)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 8char function names from hell
Summary: now that depends on the release of UNIX
Keywords: Any way to kludge around?
Message-ID: <694@chutepc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 16:00:59 GMT
References: <380@flatline.UUCP> <385@pcbox.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard Sch Pub Hlth, Epidemiology
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In article <385@pcbox.UUCP>, pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie) writes:
> In article <380@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
> >behold, the unix-pc C compiler doesn't go past 8 characters in
> >either a function or a varible name! [etc]
> 
> The unix-pc compiler does by default support longer function/variable
> names, unless you use the -T option to truncate.

Now for those of us who suffered through version 2.0 and 3.0 of the
UNIXpc System V, Eric's comments ring true.  It was only with the advent of
release 3.5 that full flex name support was available with the compiler (many
of us had used a pre-preprocessor to get around it anyhow).
  How quickly we forget history. :->

Cheers,
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