From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] early cc variable and function names Message-ID: <20141018103221.204F418C089@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey > This is really an identifier issues Probably actually a function of the relocatable object format / linker on the machines in question, which in most (all?) cases predated C itself. > it's documented in K&R 1st edition, page 179: Oooh, good piece of detective work! Noel