[TUHS] early cc variable and function names

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Oct 18 20:32:21 AEST 2014


    > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com>

    > This is really an identifier issues

Probably actually a function of the relocatable object format / linker on the
machines in question, which in most (all?) cases predated C itself.

    > it's documented in K&R 1st edition, page 179:

Oooh, good piece of detective work!

	Noel



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