Portable code: identifier length

[Philip Peake]

In article <1825 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> garry%cadif-oak at cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu writes:
>I notice in Martin Minow's C-spec postings that the spec currently says
>that external identifiers may - dependent on implementation - be significant 
>in as few as the first 6 characters.
>

Not only is the limit only 6 chars, but it is CASE INDEPENDENT too.
So the identifiers 'var1' and 'Var1' are the same -

BUT

only when making EXTERNAL linkages, within the same file they are
different.

Disgusting, isn't it ?

Are we really approaching the end of the 20th century ?
Some people seem to be unwilling to recognise it, and to dispose
of linke editors which should have died long ago ...

Philip