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From: padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell)
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Subject: Re: 6 char externs and the ANSI standard
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Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 07:51:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 14 07:51:43 1984
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I don't think that having two different object code formats
(short name, long name) would be hard to handle.  For example,
I have done just that,   and wrote an entire loader, that was tested,
correct,  and so forth, in a month.  I will root around and see if I can
find the code, and post it too the net.  I think that supporting other
object code formats should be a piece of cake.  The big problems are
in speeding things up.  Symbol table searching, which is the biggest
impact on the different formats, was less than 10% of the source code,
and about 30% of the execution time.

Patrick Powell