[TUHS] early cc variable and function names

[John Cowan]

Noel Chiappa scripsit:

> The a.out symbol tables use 8-character fields to hold symbol names. However,
> C automagically and unavoidably prepends an _ to all externals (I forget
> about automatics, registers, etc - too tired to check right now), making the
> limit for C names 7 characters.

The _ was only for externals, including all procedure names.  It prevented
collisions with names introduced into the assembly-language source or
in libc.

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