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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:18:45 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
Subject:   Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!
Message-ID:  <200908171818.47710.erich@apsara.com.sg>
In-Reply-To: <20090817100906.GA1162@phenom.cordula.ws>
References:  <980215.56754.qm@web58307.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20090817102529.be4fe3a5.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090817100906.GA1162@phenom.cordula.ws>

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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



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