21 Feb
2012
21 Feb
'12
5:21 a.m.
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
[...]
I'm pretty sure this dates back to PDP-11 days.
I'm wondering "why?".
Why did the C compiler prepend an underscore to function names?
Sure was the PDP-11 :-) I vaguely recall that it was to make sure that
user functions did not conflict with predefined assembler functions, as
that would be a pain to diagnose (much like having swap overlap root).
-- Dave