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

[Jason Howe]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:15:04 -0500, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com>
 wrote:
> 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.
>

True, I wonder if VSI would be willing to offer community hobbyists some kind 
of "developer" VSI licenses to run for assistance in testing and what not.

I've not really been following since I'm a hobbyiest with a couple Alpha 
boxes, but with their recent announcement of collecting Alpha PSCI 
databases -- well, I'm suddenly paying much closer attention. I can't wait 
to get home to dump by database.

--Jason