From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:21:59 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] early cc variable and function names In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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). -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html