Lattice/UNIX incompatibility

[Henry Spencer]

>  ... but the Microsoft linker
>  and object file format don't accept long or case-sensitive names.  What
>  does the proposed ANSI standard say about the issue?

The current draft says that the length limit (if any) and treatment
of case in external identifiers are "implementation-defined", which
means that implementors can do things as they wish but must document
their decisions.  Also, the length limit may not be shorter than 6.
There is a definite implication that arbitrary-length names are nice,
but it is politically necessary for conforming implementations to be
possible even on machines with old linker formats.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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