daveb@geac.UUCP (10/19/87)
In article <31140@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: >Once more: the adoption of the ANSI C standard will not force ANY C >implementations to limit themselves to 6-character one-case external names. >Anybody out there who still believes this should stop doing so. > Guy Harris > {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy > guy@sun.com I'd like to emphasize what Guy just said, and add my own comment to the effect that linkers can and have been extended transparently to all programs __except__ those actually calling restricted-name-length fortran subroutines/functions. One of the disfeatures of a news system using asnychrony and flooding is that misconceptions sometimes propagate faster than valid data. --dave (sigh) c-b ps: Last week I posted a scenario to the above discussion showing how a certain large, stingy company upgraded their linkers. If it didn't reach your site, I'd appreciate hearing from you by mail. I live near a news-eating black hole, you see... -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.