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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Are C++ translators usable under Xenix?
Message-ID: <9362@alice.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 05:03:31 GMT
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I suppose it's worth mentioning that cfront 2.0
is much better than previous versions at generating
names less than 32 characters long if needed.

It uses a more compact encoding for names of functions
that have several arguments of the same type.
Moreover, if the encoded name is still too long,
it uses a hashing scheme (under control of a compilation
option) to cut the name down to 31 characers while
still maintaining what we hope is an acceptably
small probability of collision.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com