Re: C99 status.html query

[Neil Booth <NeilB at earthling dot net>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:-

> I guess it refers to 6.10.2p5
> 
>        [#5]  The  implementation  shall provide unique mappings for
>        sequences consisting of one or more letters  or  digits  (as
>        defined  in  5.2.1)  followed  by a period (.)  and a single
>        letter.   The  first  character  shall  be  a  letter.   The
>        implementation  may  ignore the distinctions of alphabetical
>        case  and  restrict  the  mapping   to   eight   significant
>        characters before the period.
> 
> which in C90 6.8.2 was
> 
>     There shall be an implementation-defined mapping between the delimited
>     sequence and the external source file name.  The implementation shall
>     provide unique mappings for sequences consisting of one or more
>     letters (as defined in 5.2.1) followed by a period (.) and a single
>     letter.  The implementation may ignore the distinctions of
>     alphabetical case and restrict the mapping to six significant
>     characters before the period.

So what is not right in the current implementation?

Neil.