[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - need some feedback

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Thu Jan 1 18:24:17 EST 2015


On 1/1/15 12:43 PM, BillPedersen wrote:
> Happy New Year to everyone, first.

> VMS Software Inc. is looking for some feedback as to C99 features
> missing/broken in current C compiler.  Also looking for feedback on
> missing/broken CRTL functions.  Please feel free to submit
> information to me and I will forward to VSI.

While collecting feedback is good, there is really no substitute for
passing a conformance test suite. The following turned up in a quick
search; it looks like the good ones cost money. I know nothing about
these, but I'll note that a prior version of the first one (from
Perennial) was used to certify C89 compliance for DEC C on Digital UNIX.

<http://www.peren.com/index.htm>

<http://www.plumhall.com/stec1.html>

<http://www.ace.nl/compiler/supertest.html>

The following appear quite incomplete but are free:

<http://posixtest.sourceforge.net>

<http://p99.gforge.inria.fr/p99-html/test-p99-conformance_8c-example.html>



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