8char function names from hell

[a.b.sherman]

In article <380 at flatline.UUCP>, erict at flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
| Just tried to compile some stuff I got from a friend.  Low and
| behold, the unix-pc C compiler doesn't go past 8 characters in
| either a function or a varible name!
| 
| What's da dang deal?  For some strange reason I thought that maybe,
| just maybe, C compilers within USG and/or sysV would be a little
| more compatible than this.


As of Release 3.51 full flexname support is provided in the stock
compiler.  If you don't have 3.51, get the flexnames C-preprocessor
from the STORE!.  It works.
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