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From: gjc@bu-cs.BU.EDU (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ __loong_identifiers
Message-ID: <27938@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 89 19:31:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: samperi@marob.MASA.COM's message of 15 Feb 89 00:07:30 GMT

I was not particularly impressed by the Oasis C++ port of the AT&T
translator, one reason being that they did not deal with that
very important identifier name-length mapping problem.

All one needs to do his own port of the AT&T translator is to
have a c pre-processor such as the one from GNU, and access to
a regular unix system on which to re-translate the translator
with VMS specific include files. One would probably be better
off with a modification of the AT&T translator to avoid generating
large names in the first place. There are a lot more efficient
ways to hash down the size of the names.

-gjc