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From: MLY.G.SHADES%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA
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Subject: External names in other languages
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 20:26:53 EST
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	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