Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonport Message-ID: <4071@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 02:56:06 GMT References: <5162@hoptoad.uucp> <225800072@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 14 In article <225800072@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: [re linkers with 6-char limit] >And all of this is rather unimportant, because it should be possible >to write a linker that links all the C files together and leaves only >operating system calls and calls to other languages for the system linker. Actually, it's even easier than that. The C compiler can generate an internal object format. A custom post-processor takes these object files, scans for all long identifiers, shortens them to unique 6-char names, and produces as its output system-format object files ready for the standard linker. No linking need be done by this post processor. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP:!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi