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From: lum@osu-eddie.UUCP (Lum Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable code: identifier length
Message-ID: <2759@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 16:18:09 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.2759
Posted: Sat Dec 20 16:18:09 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Dec-86 20:58:25 EST
References: <1630@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: lum@osu-eddie.UUCP (Lum Johnson)
Organization: The Ohio State University, IRCC/CIS DEC-2060
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Keywords: PDP-10

In article <1630@brl-adm.ARPA> KLH@sri-nic.arpa (Ken Harrenstien) writes:
>The implementations for the DEC PDP-10 that I know of only allow 6
>significant monocase characters in external identifiers; this is a
>limitation imposed on almost all PDP-10 software by the format of
>standard relocatable files (the latest format does provide for longer
>symbols but is both too new and incomplete to help any).

That is correct for relocatable files acceptable to pre-V6 LINK;
V6 LINK accepts symbol names significant upto 72 SIXBIT-compatible
ASCII chars with case being optionally significant.

Digital is withdrawing support from the PDP-10 architecture, so it
will either disappear soon or be appropriately updated and supported
by the formation of a user consortium, as recently requested at DECUS.

Lum Johnson  lum@ohio-state.arpa  ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum