Reserved names in ANSI C

[Jonathan Patrick Leech]

In article <1989Jul14.162834.2721 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <547 at cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh at cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
>>Yeah, but though you may be able to use more, a 'strictly conforming' program
>>can't, otherwise it won't port to sites with 6-character linkers. In other
>>words 6 characters *is* the real limit.
>Right.  This is a fact of life now; it is not an invention of X3J11.

    How about if someone identifies the offending environments.
Presumably linkers introduced in the future will not suffer under the
6-character restriction, so people willing to flush the currently
offending systems from their porting base could work with a more
flexible limit.
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    Jon Leech (leech at apple.com)
    Apple Integrated Systems
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