[Info-vax] Calling standards, was: Re: Byte range locking - was Re: Oracle on VMS

[Craig A. Berry]

On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 12:52:47 PM UTC-6, Simon Clubley wrote:
 
> The main issue I have with the C APIs are the lack of counted strings
> or descriptors for string handling (which annoys me) but that doesn't
> change the fact that the C API _is_ the common calling standard for
> Unix/Linux.

C11 has an optional annex that provides bounds-checking interfaces.  The proposal came from Microsoft and not everyone is thrilled with it.  See:

<http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm>