Tandy 16/6000 Xenix 3.2 'cc' problems

[Gordon Burditt]

>It seems that in tandys latest development system that "cc" only
>supports 8 significant characters. The assembler on the other hand
>supports 31(?) or so. This leads to large problems in porting software

Using the 3.2.0 development system upgrade with the 3.0.0 development
system:

	cc -+ -o foo foo.c

gives 32-character significant preprocessor symbols, and 31-plus-underscore
significant external names.  With or without the -+ option, which isn't
passed to them anyway, the assembler and linker still support 50 characters 
maximum (as distinguished from 50 characters significant).

(Don't confuse the version number of the "Xenix Multiuser Operating System"
with the version number of the "Xenix Development System", even though
they both have a 3.2).

					Gordon L. Burditt
					...!texbell!sneaky!gordon

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