From: Laurent GUERBY <guerby@acm.org>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: neroden@twcny.rr.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Old bug: the 14-character limit.
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 21:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1053724644.3886.91.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305232053.h4NKrKZ16422@greed.delorie.com>
On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 22:53, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I don't know of any hard limits, but as long as files are unique in
> the 8.3 characters (i.e. first 8 characters of the basename, first 3
> characters of the extension), even DJGPP won't care about the length.
In the case I mentionned, there are multiple files with the same 25
first characters and the same extension, so I guess it's out of DJGPP
league anyway :).
I assume DJGPP constaints are mostly for the C compiler (may be other
languages ?), is this documented somewhere?
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-23 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-23 19:41 Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-23 19:52 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-25 18:17 ` Andris Pavenis
2003-05-23 20:44 ` Laurent GUERBY
2003-05-23 20:45 ` Neil Booth
2003-05-23 20:53 ` Phil Edwards
2003-05-23 20:53 ` Mike Stump
2003-05-23 20:54 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-23 21:34 ` Laurent GUERBY [this message]
2003-05-23 21:53 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-24 9:27 ` Laurent GUERBY
2003-05-24 14:23 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-24 2:19 ` Michael S. Zick
2003-05-23 19:44 Nathanael Nerode
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