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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:09:06 +0200
From:      cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!
Message-ID:  <20090817100906.GA1162@phenom.cordula.ws>
In-Reply-To: <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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.

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