Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!MLY.G.SHADES%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA From: MLY.G.SHADES%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: External names in other languages Message-ID: <7332@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 20:26:53 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7332 Posted: Mon Jan 14 20:26:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 03:26:04 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 13 it is a sound idea admittedly but it seems to me that all you are doing is the standard(?) practice of #define this_is_a_very_long_name xyzzy int this_is_a_very_long_name; when the compiler generates the internal global symbols table then for the linker all references would be to variable xyzzy. nice try but no dice i think shades@mit-oz