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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
Subject: Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!
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Hi,

On 17 August 2009 pm 18:09:06 cpghost wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to
> > be unique within the first 6 (six) letters? :-)
>
> The 6 letters limit was actually a restriction of earlier
> linkers and it affected all identifiers of linkable objects

I did not know that linkers resolved macros those days.

Interesting.

Erich