At 02:17 PM 9/20/2001 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:09:52PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Just a reminder--function names shouldn't exceed 31 characters. The C
> > standard doesn't guarantee anything past that...
>
>You think that's bad? You aren't guaranteed more than six characters,
>case-insensitive for external identifiers.
We're OK with 31 character, case insensitive, I think. That'll work on VMS,
which is the most restrictive of the platforms in this regard that we'll
build on.
>I've been told that Oracle actually requires conformance to this
>in their coding standards. I'm very happy that I don't have to
>write code for Orcale...
Ah, that's explain the hideous symbols that always got spat out whenever I
got a backtrace from a crashing oracle process. I understand.
Dan
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