Prepending _ in C external names necessary?

[Ipse dixit]

In article <9109 at ritcv.UUCP> spw2562 at ritcv.UUCP (Fishhook) writes:
>now suppose there's a symbol dosome defined by the assembler.  By prepending
>you avoid a conflict.  with appending, you don't.

Ah, but all the assembler symbols like r6 are short. If the C symbol is
long enough to exceed the significance limit it certainly won't clash
either. Unless you define some long symbols in assembler, that is.
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