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From: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable code: identifier length
Message-ID: <779@axis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:24:33 EST
Article-I.D.: axis.779
Posted: Thu Dec 18 07:24:33 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 06:05:35 EST
References: <1825@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
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In article <1825@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu writes:
>I notice in Martin Minow's C-spec postings that the spec currently says
>that external identifiers may - dependent on implementation - be significant 
>in as few as the first 6 characters.
>

Not only is the limit only 6 chars, but it is CASE INDEPENDENT too.
So the identifiers 'var1' and 'Var1' are the same -

BUT

only when making EXTERNAL linkages, within the same file they are
different.

Disgusting, isn't it ?

Are we really approaching the end of the 20th century ?
Some people seem to be unwilling to recognise it, and to dispose
of linke editors which should have died long ago ...

Philip