[Info-vax] OpenVMS books

[Saifi Khan]

On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 10:19:14 PM UTC+5:30, John Reagan wrote:
> On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 12:12:32 PM UTC-4, Saifi Khan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Any other pointers/links related to C/C++ programming on OpenVMS ?
> > 
> > 
> > warm regards
> > Saifi.
> 
> Are you on Alpha or Itanium?
> 
> The C compiler on both is technically C99 but the RTLs are missing a few things.
> 
> The C++ compiler on Itanium is C++98-ish.  The C++ compiler on Alpha is even older.
> 
> Keep this in mind if you cut-n-paste examples online to try on OpenVMS.

Hi john:

With Mark's help, i could get an account on decus.org

Guess i'm logged onto an OpenVMS Alpha V8.3

The compiler information is as follows,

$ cc /ver
HP C V7.3-010 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3  

My host machine is an AMD64 ASUS laptop running Arch Linux.

I have ssh'd to decus.org and no "cut-n-paste", as i'd like to read through the code and type it out myself, errors  and all. :-)

Could you elaborate, what you mean by "RTLs are missing a few things." ?

i understand a bit of glibc and libc stuff, so i should be able to follow you.


warm regards
Saifi.