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From: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 05:52:01 EDT
Subject: Re: Work on Macros in math.h
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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In a message dated 9/17/2003 3:01:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Martin DOT Stromberg AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se writes:

> >>Thanks. The filenames are too long (8+3) convention. I'll fix that and 
> post 
> >>a
> >>patch against CVS sometime soon for review. (Hopefully this weekend.)
> >
> >The same is true of many of the files that house my long-double and fenv.h 
> >functions and documentation files, files in the ../tgen and ../cygnus 
> >directories, and link-library names (libstdcxx.a is one example).
> 
> Better do something about it then.
> 

Doesn't the (8+3) convention mean simply that the first 8 characters of the 
file name and the first three characters of the extension be unique?


KB Williams

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