Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!inria!axis!philip 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) Organization: Axis Digital, 135 rue d'Aguesseau, Boulogne, 92100, FRANCE Lines: 21 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