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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I worked with a complier that would assume only compare the first 8 characters and would treat it the same afterwards.

Compiler copyright was around 1990.

Edit: This was for function names in C

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Damn that must have been such a headache