>>>>> "Olin" == shivers  <xxxxxx@cc.gatech.edu> writes:

Olin> But the second point says that you better not count on > 32
Olin> chars, so making the space *required* is painful.

But this is only relevant if you're not using a trampoline.  In that
case, you're system-specific anyway.  Moreover, the restriction does
not seem to hold for most modern Unixes, including recent versions of
(as verified by us) FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Irix, and
MacOS X.  In fact, I don't know a single current Unix version which
still has it.

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