Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!upen From: upen@watarts.UUCP (Ue-Li Pen) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: identifiers Message-ID: <8196@watarts.UUCP> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 19:42:01 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8196 Posted: Sun Jan 6 19:42:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 03:14:02 EST References: <8195@watarts.UUCP> <4875@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 14 > > If there is so much disagreement over how long the identifier is significant > > to, why not say: > > > > a) That the number of characters actually stored must be at least 7. > > b) The length of the whole identifier is significant. > > Not a bad suggestion, except that the recalcitrant object-module formats > that cause the length-significance problems don't have a "real length" > field available either. > You wouldn't have to change the object-module format, just store the length as an ascii character at the end of the identifier.. This gets around modifying your linker and compiler - however it would reduce the size of your "significant characters" stored..