[Info-vax] "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-16 14:56:24 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:

> Also at first glance, it's only including iosbdef.h on Alpha, and 
> otherwise rolling its own _iosb struct. Surely that should be #ifndef 
> _VAX rather than #ifdef __alpha?

Yeah; that #ifdef __alpha sends Itanium down the wrong path.  It'll 
very likely work (which is why nobody noticed?), but OpenVMS I64 does 
provide the iosbdef.h include file, as undoubtedly will future 
platforms.

And (in all seriousness) does anybody still need __VAXC?   Even as 
early as OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2, DEC C is available if you load the 
AACRT060 patch kit, or the stock CRTL on later releases.   And I'm not 
so sure that the VAXCRTL would even work here given the subset of 
routines available back then, and given the VAX C compiler is known to 
mis-compile the published MD5 code and undoubtedly has other issues.   
I'd want to test the code that far back, and would certainly expect to 
encounter either compiler or run-time problems, or both.


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