Standardization questions (cpp mostly)

[Henry Spencer]

> In a related subject: What machines can't support more than 6 character
> variables??  Outdated software maybe, but I can't see what the underlying
> machine has to do with it...

The underlying hardware (assuming it's halfway sane) is not really involved.
But as far as most compiler writers are concerned, the operating system and
its loader/linker might as well be part of the hardware.  I.e., they are
"givens" over which he has no power.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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