It's a Very C Thing to have a type named `short` and a macro describing it dropping the "o", e.g. `SHRT_WIDTH `.
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That is ancient, may be from a DEC linker restriction on old PDP iron. I don't remember but
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Ah yes, the infamous first ANSI C standard that allowed linker symbols to be truncated to 6 characters, leading to clumsy names. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38035628/c-why-did-ansi-only-specify-six-characters-for-the-minimum-number-of-significa … Even when ANSI increased this to 31 characters, I occasionally got linker errors because of name mangling with early C++.
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