Bug in Unix System V C compiler

G.TOMASEVICH grt at hocda.UUCP
Thu Aug 9 07:31:11 AEST 1984


>The problem is that even cutting back to only eight letters is not
>sufficient because no AT&T C compiler seems to be able to handle even
>eight properly.

The compiler prefixes the name with underscore in the translation to assembly
code, so if the assembler takes only 8 characters, then only 7 of the
original characters get through.
	George Tomasevich, AT&T-BL



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