[Info-vax] Device locked by non existing process.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/2/2018 5:37 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 7:56:12 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/23/2018 11:43 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> char *ptr2 = NULL;
>>>
>>> For a very long time we _had_ to do this. Now it is bad practice and later C standards introduced nullptr.
>>
>> The later C standard called C++ 11?
>>
>> :-)
>>
> 
> Obviously you haven't written C on OpenVMS lately.

December.

> The current C compiler is a downgrade to what I had installed. This
> version has pieces of C99 stubbed out, without reserving words which
> were stubbed. Other segments aren't touched at all while a token few
> portions of the standard were actually implemented.
> 
> Had the current C compiler been placed in a charred oak barrel upon
> its release, it would be some mighty fine sipping whiskey by now.
It is not up to latest standard. Hopefully it will eventually get there.

But I don't see what relevance when I last used C on VMS and the state
of current VMS C compiler has for the point:

nullptr is a C++ thing - not a C thing

Arne