Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 17:43:17 EST
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: iis!arnstein AT Sun DOT COM
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: yet another question about gcc-2.3.3

>It seems that there is considerable interest in making djgpp compliant with
>gcc version 2.3.3.  It also seems that a principal obstacle to this goal is
>the existence of files in gcc-2.3.3 that have names longer than 8 characters.
>
>My question is, what's the big deal?  Change a few file names, change the
>Makefile(s), problem solved (?).

I don't know if this is the problem, but one thing which would make it more
difficult is if some of the include files have long names.  Then source code
changes would be necessary, possibly in many places.  One possibility would be
a preprocessor to adjust names in #include statements.  (I thought about using
command line args: -Dlongfilename=shrtname, but the C preprocessor won't do
this.)