From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:25:56 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] early cc variable and function names In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20141018072556.GC41494@eureka.lemis.com> On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 21:51:56 -0400, Mark Longridge wrote: > So it would seem that function names can only be 7 characters in > length. I am not sure if limitations of early cc were documented > anywhere. This is really an identifier issues, and it's documented in K&R 1st edition, page 179: DEC PDP-11 7 characters, 2 cases Honeywell 6000 6 characters, 1 case IBM 360/370 7 characters, 1 case Interdata 8/32 8 characters, 2 cases Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: