Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!padpowell From: padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: 6 char externs and the ANSI standard Message-ID: <1539@wateng.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 07:51:43 EDT Article-I.D.: wateng.1539 Posted: Sun Oct 14 07:51:43 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 01:32:36 EDT References: <12792@sri-arpa.UUCP> <454@voder.UUCP> <1570@nsc.UUCP>, <337@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 11 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