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

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-02-12, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure about that, given that 8.3 is on the supported list?

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Paul Sture