6 Aug
2020
6 Aug
'20
1:16 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:57:25PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, Warner Losh wrote:
K&R 1st edition Reference Manual section 2.2 mentions 8 (including
underscore) as the number of significant characters, though names can
be longer. External names are more restricted: it has a table of
limits for external names for various targerts. PDP-11 is 7 chars,
Honeywell 6000 is 6 chars (with no case distinction).
-Otto
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 8:12 PM Jim Capp
<jcapp(a)anteil.com> wrote:
Looking through the code, I see some awfully long function names.
Does anyone recall if there are/were limits on the size of
variable and function names?
8 I think was the limit.
Seven plus the leading (implied) underscore?
-- Dave