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

[JF Mezei]

On 14-02-11 13:13, Chris Scheers wrote:

> current system.  As you point out, compiler/system updates can change 
> things on you.  This may also break other working builds.

adding the optional arguments which are supported by the RTL won't break
other builds. Software which does not make use of the optional arguments
will continue to compile fine.

And if Mr VAXman's compiler kludge work on both the more recent and
fixed version and the older ones with the bad C header, then the kludge
will work when customers upgrade from older to newer VMS versions.

However, at this point, I find it highly unlikely that customers would
bother upgrading VMS versions. If they aren't at 8.3, they aren't likely
to upgrade to 8.3 before going off VMS to another platform.