[Info-vax] C History on VMS (was Re: C... the only winning move is not to play...)

[Chris Scheers]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> In terms of the per-language support within OpenVMS, C was effectively 
> an afterthought for most of the environments, as the first C compiler 
> and VAXCRTL library support only arrived somewhere around V4.4 IIRC.  
> That was well after the other languages.   C is also somewhat weird on 
> OpenVMS in that it now has two libraries; the traditional user-mode 
> library that most languages have, and also its own kernel-mode library 
> that was implemented as part of the C system programming support that 
> arrived around OpenVMS V6.1 IIRC.

IIRC: C and Ada RTL support was added in V4.2.

IIRC (and I may well be wrong here), you could load compiler support on 
earlier versions and get the RTLs.

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