6 char externs and the ANSI standard
PAD Powell
padpowell at wateng.UUCP
Sun Oct 14 21:51:43 AEST 1984
I don't think that having two different object code formats
(short name, long name) would be hard to handle. For example,
I have done just that, and wrote an entire loader, that was tested,
correct, and so forth, in a month. I will root around and see if I can
find the code, and post it too the net. I think that supporting other
object code formats should be a piece of cake. The big problems are
in speeding things up. Symbol table searching, which is the biggest
impact on the different formats, was less than 10% of the source code,
and about 30% of the execution time.
Patrick Powell
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