On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to > be unique within the first 6 (six) letters? :-)
The 6 letters limit was actually a restriction of earlier linkers and it affected all identifiers of linkable objects like variables, functions etc... Everybody familiar with FORTRAN libraries like BLAS [1] will remember that cramped namespace. ;-) [1]: http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node145.html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
