18 Oct
2014
18 Oct
'14
4:32 p.m.
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey
<grog(a)lemis.com>
This is really an identifier issues
Probably actually a function of the relocatable object format / linker on the
machines in question, which in most (all?) cases predated C itself.
it's documented in K&R 1st edition, page 179:
Oooh, good piece of detective work!
Noel