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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Debugging help sought
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 14:57:25 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008061455180.61909@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfojWSkL_cJK1ZPKENf6Joc31=uXPpe6oigXkzQ-dR65Bw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, Warner Losh wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 8:12 PM Jim Capp <jcapp@anteil.com> wrote:
>       Looking through the code, I see some awfully long function names.
>       Does anyone recall if there are/were limits on the size of
>       variable and function names?
> 
> 8 I think was the limit.

Seven plus the leading (implied) underscore?

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-06  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-06  1:28 Adam Thornton
2020-08-06  2:01 ` Jim Capp
2020-08-06  3:04   ` Warner Losh
2020-08-06  3:08     ` Warner Losh
2020-08-06  5:55       ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-06  4:57     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-08-06  7:16       ` Otto Moerbeek
2020-08-06 15:47 ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-06 16:09   ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-06 16:19     ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-06 16:24       ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-06 23:41         ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-07  0:35   ` Warner Losh
2020-08-07  4:30     ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-07  5:49       ` Warner Losh
2020-08-07  5:54         ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-07 16:07 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-07 17:11 ` John Cowan
2020-08-07 20:48 ` Warner Losh

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