Subset C Standards / Re: Linkers - Next Frontier?

[Henry Spencer]

> A two level standard seems like a good idea,
> and there are many precedents for it...

The current ANSI C draft contains a short appendix of "recognized
extensions".  Among them are things like the labelled-common model
of multiple external definitions, since the defines-uses model is
the only one that can be implemented on most non-Unix systems.  I
don't know whether long external names are mentioned, but it would
certainly seem appropriate.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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