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From: davel@hpda.UUCP (Dave Lennert)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Prepending _ in C external names necessary?
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 17:55:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 17:55:43 1985
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Cupertino, CA
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We're considering changing our C compiler to *not* prepend an underscore
at the beginning of all external names (functions, variables).  Will this
break things?  Are there reasons (technical/religious) that we should not
do this?  Please respond via MAIL; our news connection is frequently
flakey.  I will summarize to the net.

I recall seeing a discussion of this topic before.  If someone has an
archive of it, please *mail* it to me.

Thanks!

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