Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!osu-eddie!lum 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 Lines: 16 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