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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-22, Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>

Wow. That looks seriously yucky.

Simon.

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