From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24030 invoked by alias); 23 May 2003 21:17:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24023 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 21:17:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mwinf0304.wanadoo.fr) (193.252.22.28) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 May 2003 21:17:26 -0000 Received: from ATuileries-101-1-2-191.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr (unknown [193.251.50.191]) by mwinf0304.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 90FEAA803F85; Fri, 23 May 2003 23:17:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Old bug: the 14-character limit. From: Laurent GUERBY To: DJ Delorie Cc: neroden@twcny.rr.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200305232053.h4NKrKZ16422@greed.delorie.com> References: <20030523193958.GA12758@doctormoo> <1053721320.3886.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200305232053.h4NKrKZ16422@greed.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053724644.3886.91.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 21:34:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg02151.txt.bz2 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