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From: grt@hocda.UUCP (G.TOMASEVICH)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  Bug in Unix System V C compiler
Message-ID: <449@hocda.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 17:31:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 17:31:11 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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>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