The first C compilers/linkers would only look at the first 8 characters of identifiers to determine equality. That kind of limits the sort of names you could use in a OS sized code-base and still maintain uniqueness. I'd say it was better to keep all identifiers under 8 characters than to risk the possibility of unintended ambiguous names.
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The first C compilers/linkers would only look at the first 8 characters of identifiers to determine equality. That kind of limits the sort of names you could use in a OS sized code-base and still maintain uniqueness. I'd say it was better to keep all identifiers under 8 characters than to risk the possibility of unintended ambiguous names.