Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: portability and standards Message-ID: <6093@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 20:41:06 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6093 Posted: Thu Jul 9 20:41:06 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 07:11:11 EDT References: <8113@brl-adm.ARPA> <1068@aldebaran.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <1068@aldebaran.UUCP> jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson) writes: >ANSI C has adapted REF/DEF because it is compatible with the >majority of existing implementations. More importantly, many linkers place unacceptable restrictions on COMMON storage (e.g.: 4Kb alignment for each external COMMON name; no more than 256 distinct COMMON names). The C implementor often does not have much if any control over the linker that he must use. Practically all linkers have usable DEF/REF support.