Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!adm!KLH@sri-nic.arpa From: KLH@sri-nic.arpa (Ken Harrenstien) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Portable code: identifier length Message-ID: <1630@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 03:37:34 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.1630 Posted: Thu Dec 18 03:37:34 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 20:55:58 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 6 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). -------