identifiers

[Ue-Li Pen]

> > If there is so much disagreement over how long the identifier is significant
> > to, why not say:
> > 
> > a) That the number of characters actually stored must be at least 7.
> > b) The length of the whole identifier is significant.
> 
> Not a bad suggestion, except that the recalcitrant object-module formats
> that cause the length-significance problems don't have a "real length"
> field available either.
>
You wouldn't have to change the object-module format, just
store the length as an ascii character at the end of the identifier..
This gets around modifying your linker and compiler - however it
would reduce the size of your "significant characters" stored..