[Ecls-list] Critical change

[Peter Van Eynde]

On Thursday 18 January 2007 21:48, Jyrki Jaakkola wrote:
> Most older compilers has this limit but I haven't checked how it's with 
> newer compilers. As far as I know even those which had the limit would 

From: http://www.25hoursaday.com/C99.html

"Increased identifier size limits: specifically 63 significant initial 
characters in an internal identifier or macro name, 31 significant initial 
characters in an external identifier, and 4095 characters in a logical source 
line. These values were 31, 6, and 509, respectively, in C89."

Unfortunately not all compilers claim C99 yet.

gcc uses all characters it seems. The sun compiler 
(http://docs.sun.com/source/819-3688/c90.implementation.app.html) uses 1023, 
for Microsoft I found no details.

Groetjes, Peter

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