Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mtune!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!lbl
From: lbl@druhi.ATT.COM (LocklearLB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser C bug reports/notes
Message-ID: <2747@druhi.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 88 01:02:19 GMT
References: <1988Feb29.101120.12013@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
Lines: 13
Keywords: Megamax Laser C
Summary: variables are flexnames...

In article <1988Feb29.101120.12013@mntgfx.mentor.com>, dclemans@mntgfx.UUCP writes:
>     It looks like the compiler now has only 8 significant characters, vs. 10 characters in V1.

I specifically ran some tests of this feature. The tests consisted of 
assigning values to two variables that were identical up to N characters
and printing out the results.  As far as I can tell, Laser C uses flex
names (i.e. no preset variable length ) but, the tools they have provided 
only print out the first 8 characters or so.  I can't figure out why they
didn't make the tools work with flexnames, unless you need to give them some
option to work with flexnames.  I think I'll wait until the full documentation 
arrives before making any more comments.

Barry Locklear