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From: andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 8char function names from hell
Summary: Pre 3.51 get flexnames from STORE
Keywords: Any way to kludge around?
Message-ID: <183@shlepper.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 88 18:21:36 GMT
References: <380@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ
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In article <380@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
| Just tried to compile some stuff I got from a friend.  Low and
| behold, the unix-pc C compiler doesn't go past 8 characters in
| either a function or a varible name!
| 
| What's da dang deal?  For some strange reason I thought that maybe,
| just maybe, C compilers within USG and/or sysV would be a little
| more compatible than this.


As of Release 3.51 full flexname support is provided in the stock
compiler.  If you don't have 3.51, get the flexnames C-preprocessor
from the STORE!.  It works.
-- 
Andy Sherman / AT&T Bell Laboratories (Medical Diagnostic Systems)
480 Red Hill Road / Middletown NJ 07748 / (201) 615-5708
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