From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] early cc variable and function names
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:21:59 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1410171317090.1909@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N4x_q8zreY_ky7SwNn2OqK07OnqO+uUAm_pRfALo-5iZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Mark Longridge wrote:
> It seems like early cc could only use variable and function names up to
> 8 characters.
In those days it took only the first seven and ignored the rest,
prepending an underscore as you discovered. I don't remember when longer
names were recognised; for all I know it could've been around when
pathnames could be longer than 14 chars (which I think may have been a
BSDism).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-17 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-17 1:51 Mark Longridge
2014-10-17 2:20 ` Milo Velimirovic
2014-10-17 2:21 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2014-10-17 13:35 ` random832
2014-10-17 13:44 ` Warner Losh
2014-10-17 14:07 ` arnold
2014-10-17 14:22 ` Milo Velimirović
2014-10-17 19:29 ` random832
2014-10-18 7:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-10-17 2:29 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-17 2:40 ` John Cowan
2014-10-17 2:52 ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17 3:46 ` John Cowan
2014-10-17 3:54 ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17 19:41 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-17 20:37 ` random832
2014-10-17 20:42 ` Larry McVoy
2014-10-17 16:11 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-18 10:32 Noel Chiappa
2014-10-18 23:03 ` Ron Natalie
2014-10-18 23:11 ` Dave Horsfall
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