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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <pk9ga8$kia$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
> I suspect many of the VMS compilers use RMS directly instead of
> the C library functions to read program source code as well.
> 

   I've done a lot of RMS when I had too, and I've written a lot of
   code.  I can't think of one good reason to want to dip into RMS calls
   when writing a compiler; but if written in C, I might use some of the
   VMS extensions to the C RTL calls to specify the object file format.