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From: thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Hameenaho)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: lint pass2 error
Message-ID: <338@uplog.se>
Date: 16 Nov 88 13:50:02 GMT
References: <173@isncr.is.se>
Reply-To: thomas@uplog.UUCP (Thomas Hameenaho)
Organization: TeleLOGIC Uppsala AB
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In article <173@isncr.is.se> ra@isncr.is.se (Robert Andersson) writes:
>When running a *big* program through lint I consistently get the error message:
>/usr/lib/lint2: lint pass2 error: Too many names
>
>The program in question is some 20,000 lines, spread out over ~100 files and
>~500 functions. It obviously overflows some internal lint buffer.
>Exactly what does the error message mean, and is there a way around it,
>like some 'undocumented' lint option or whatever?
>
>The system I get this on is an NCR Tower 32 running vanilla SVR2.
>-- 

It is an array of source file names that overflows. This table is 150 
elements in a vanilla SVR2 from Mot and SVR3.0 from at&t.
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