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Can someone explain #9?
by matt-attack 6y ago
Can someone explain #9?
- rramadass 6y agohttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/38035628/c-why-did-ansi-only-specify-six-characters-for-the-minimum-number-of-significa https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38035628/c-why-did-ansi-...
- HankB99 6y agoBetter explanation than mine - thanks I learned something.
- HankB99 6y agoAt some point in the distant past symbol tables allowed symbols up to 6 characters long. Longer names were allowed but anything beyond 6 characters were gone by the time the linker was invoked. So ThisIsAFunction() and ThisIsAnotherFunction() would resolve to ThisIs(). It would hopefully produce an error at link time.