[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/12/2019 10:06 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <qg6127$1785$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> On 7/10/2019 8:42 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> Actually, it did.  A long time ago.
>>> 1983 PDP-11 Software Source Book -- Page 1395
>>> 1986 VAX Software Source Book -- Page 1155
>>>
>>> The Safe C Compiler.
>>>   From Catalytix Corp.
>>>
>>> OSes supported: RSTS, RSX, RT-11, ULTRIX-11, UNIX, ULTRIX-32, VMS.
>>
>> Did it have a string type?
> 
>     I think it just implemented pointers as more than addresses.

If a pointer becomes a structure with:
* start address of array
* element type
* element size
* number of elements in array
* index of element pointed to
then it would be possible to check some things done with pointers.

 >     But it didn't sell.

Arne