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From: anw@nott-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: External Linkage in dpANS C
Message-ID: <601@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 15:49:12 GMT
References: <1339@vsi1.COM> <9274@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The University, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2RD, UK.
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In article <9274@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>[...]
>Many older linkers provided only what Fortran required.  Even
>the PDP-11 UNIX linker had short externs (7 C source characters),
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>although no case folding.

	Make that "has"*!  Actually, it causes us surprisingly few problems;
I've installed megabytes of stuff from the Net quite easily.  The occasional
program that insists on using identifiers like "OpenNewWindow[A|B|C]" [Ick!]
soon succumbs to a nifty edit -- I've never even bothered with that program
("shortc" was it?) that abbreviated long identifiers automatically.

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* Not much longer, alas.  Once Sun UK work out how to install it, we'll
  have a shiny new machine to play with, and the long era of PDP 11's
  at Nott'm will be drawing to a close.  :-(.

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk