Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Standardization questions (cpp mostly) Message-ID: <4510@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 13:43:00 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4510 Posted: Mon Oct 22 13:43:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 13:43:00 EDT References: <83@decvax.UUCP> <143@desint.UUCP>, <138@omovax.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > In a related subject: What machines can't support more than 6 character > variables?? Outdated software maybe, but I can't see what the underlying > machine has to do with it... The underlying hardware (assuming it's halfway sane) is not really involved. But as far as most compiler writers are concerned, the operating system and its loader/linker might as well be part of the hardware. I.e., they are "givens" over which he has no power. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry