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From: gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA
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Subject: Re:  Bug in System V C compiler
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 11:01:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 11:01:49 1984
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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) 

For totally mysterious reasons, many UNIX sites will not be running
UNIX System V Release 2 any time soon, and not everyone using C has
a UNIX system anyhow.  Therefore the issue of restricted-length C
symbols remains relevant for a while, until there is an official C
standard requiring otherwise and until a "reasonable" amount of time
for compiler vendors to comply has elapsed.

Note also that the PDP-11 version of UNIX System V Release 2 does
NOT support flexnames.