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!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: external names Message-ID: <7484@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 15:42:45 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7484 Posted: Thu Jan 17 15:42:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:27:47 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 14 /* i wrote that funny external names can be mapped portably by an assembly language file containing lines such as: from: jmp to geoff kuenning responded that some assemblers use such mnemonix as EQ or JP for unconditional jumps (not to mention u1108 J), and therefore my asm module is not portable. agreed. however, names such as SYS$SYSTEM are not likely to appear on the target system anyway. what i meant was that the C code was portable, that the language need not be changed to effect this mapping. i agree it's a pain to do it this way but it works. */