[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-08-06, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>
> No, the suggestion was that maybe on IBM mainframes they aren't
> syscalls. They may be implemented in some other library, maybe even the
> C library.
>
> My point was that a compiler may well make use of various kinds of
> native services as well as C library functions, and the C library
> functions will themselves in many cases be implemented in terms of
> native services. I'm sure various of the VMS compilers make use of OTS$
> and STR$ and LIB$ and SYS$ routines in places even if they are written in C.
>

I suspect many of the VMS compilers use RMS directly instead of
the C library functions to read program source code as well.

Simon.

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