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

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <o16tjq$e4b$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>> On 11/24/16 7:06 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <o15cvh$4oj$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>>>> I don't recall whether there are any native interfaces that use .ASCIZ
>>>> but there are certainly MACRO programs that use it. And when coding in
>>>> assembler, surely null-terminated strings are the least of your worries
>>>> as far as accessing memory that doesn't belong to you. Which makes all
>>>> the dumping on C kind of silly considering a third of VMS is written in
>>>> a far more dangerous language. Dunno about BLISS. Maybe it's two thirds.
>>> What's more *dangerous*?
>> The chances that a simple mistake will have you stomping on memory that
>> doesn't belong to you or corrupting the stack.
> 
> Such as in C with all that crazy nested casting of pointers to pointers to
> pointers to pointers?  ;)
> 

Now, now, Brian.  Don't be so quick to poke fun at another person's prized Yugo.