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

[toby]

On Dec 10, 11:28 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

ITYM:  &mystring[0]

In a standard C compiler where mystring is an array,
mystring  ,  &mystring  ,  or  &mystring[0]  are all the same pointer.

> So I couldn't do just global
> changes.