long identifiers

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1990Oct26.160212.14926 at granite.cr.bull.com> buck at granite.cr.bull.com (Kenneth J. Buck) writes:
>Note: Some compilers use a name-mapping algorithm in order to achieve the
>external symbol name-length restrictions, instead of just truncating the name
>(something like, eliminate vowels starting from right to left, then
>consonants, etc., until no more than 6 chars remain, or whatever...).

Such compilers are not ANSI-conforming, since ANSI C requires the compiler to
distinguish between, say, "getchar" and "getchr".

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint