[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[JF Mezei]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> I did some porting of VAX C to DEC C.  It was mostly things like adding 
> function declarations to make the compiler stop issuing warning 
> messages.  In the process I discovered and fixed an actual bug.  ISTR 
> that it was a subscript range problem.

For me, it was all the use of the & in front of variables containing
character arrays. I had learned C that way. Had to change and review all
character strings references.  For instance &mystring was no longer
valid under dec-d, but *mystring[0] was. So I couldn't do just global
changes.