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From: KLH@sri-nic.arpa (Ken Harrenstien)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portable code: identifier length
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 03:37:34 EST
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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).
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