[Info-vax] C... the only winning move is not to play...

[Steven Schweda]

> OK.  The function is STR$CONCAT.

   At last.

   I lost much interest in this thread when the first few
messages failed to reveal what the actual problem was, so I
may have missed something, but when I'm looking for
compatibility with old systems and/or header files, I usually
avoid defining __NEW_STARLET.  I'm currently too lazy to
check a VAX at V7.x, but on my V8.3 Alpha system, that would
seem to select a simplified (and less troublesome?)
declaration of str$concat():

#ifdef __NEW_STARLET
unsigned int str$concat(
        void *destination_string,
        void *source_string_1,
        __optional_params);
#else   /* __OLD_STARLET */
unsigned int str$concat(__unknown_params);
#endif  /* #ifdef __NEW_STARLET */

   I like the type checking, but if defining __NEW_STARLET
kept me from getting the job done, then I might make it
optional (or dependent on __DECC_VER or __CRTL_VER or
something).