[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[JF Mezei]

On 14-09-06 21:50, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> A common bug in porting Unix programs to VMS is not to set compile time 
> options to use POSIX exit codes and pass those codes to DCL.

If you set compiler options to translate UNIX codes, can you still
exit(mycode)  where mycode is the result of a VMS system call ?

in other words, if you start to make use of VMS system services with VMS
status codes, is it wise to set that switch I never knew existed to
mimic Unix exit codes ?