[Info-vax] Color me confused (VMS C issues, this time with %zu)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/26/16 12:37 PM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> Op woensdag 26 oktober 2016 18:57:48 UTC+2 schreef Richard Levitte:
>> Den onsdag 26 oktober 2016 kl. 14:19:42 UTC+2 skrev John Reagan:
>>> We just added the support to the CRTL to bring it to C99 (the "z"
>>> and a few others; stdint.h; moving stuff around in inttypes.h,
>>> fp.h, float.h, and math.h) and it will soon be going to some form
>>> of field test.  Interested?  This is for VSI systems.
>>
>> I am interested, but I'm not sure I have a VSI system per se to
>> play with.  The machinery I can play with runs OpenVMS V8.4, is
>> that considered a VSI enough system?
>
> No, it isn't; you'll need to run V8.4-1H1 as a minimum; VSI layered
> products and patches can't be installed on HP(E) versions of VMS (and
> vice versa, this is part of our agreement with HPE).

Most of the people maintaining open source software on VMS are using
hobbyist licenses to do so. Which means unless and until VSI is able to
take over the hobbyist program, the people most likely to be interested
in the changes John is talking about are least likely to be able to get
access to them. Yeah, I know; that's 999 on the top 1000 list of things
for VSI to do.