> KCC is mostly ANSI compliant, but it needs to use the TOPS20 linker, which > has a limit of six case-insentive characters.
LINK has support for long (up to 72 character) symbols, and it appears FORTRAN v11 can generate them, but the MACRO assembler may never have gotten support; http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-r775d-bm_tops20_ks_upd_4/01/sources/lnknew.mac.html SUBTTL BLOCK TYPE 1002 - LONG SYMBOL ENTRY ; ---------------- ; ! 1002 ! COUNT ! ; ---------------- ; ! SYMBOL ! ; ---------------- ; ! MORE SYMBOL ! ; ---------------- in lnkpar.mac: ND MAXSYM,^D72 ;[2210] Max number of characters in a symbol ND SYMSIZ,<<MAXSYM+5>/6> ;[2210] Number of words of storage for long symbols