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Or 'tmpfile' and 'tmpnam'. Gotta save those characters. 'tempfile' and 'tempname' would be to hard to type. (Also, why not 'tmpfil'?)

• to3m 11y ago
  The number of significant characters in an extern symbol was only upgraded to 31 with C99... prior to that, it was all of 6.
  • sgt 11y ago
    This sounded a bit far-fetched so I did some digging. It is true that C89 had a maximum of 6 characters for external identifiers. C89 is often called ANSI C. C89 says: "The implementation shall treat at least the first 31 characters of an internal name (a macro name or an identifier that does not have external linkage) as significant. Corresponding lower-case and upper-case letters are different. The implementation may further restrict the significance of an external name (an identifier that has external linkage) to six characters and may ignore distinctions of alphabetical case for such names./10/ These limitations on identifiers are all implementation-defined." Source: http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt