[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-06-11 kl. 14:30, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2019-06-10, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 1:54:06 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> You are going to have to learn that new DCL qualifier name anyway from
>>> some mapping table in the documentation so you may as well just use
>>> the native clang option name via the Unix style command line and have
>>> done with it.
>>>
>>
>> To aid with that, I think we'll end up with an option of to print out the equivalent clang command option for a given DCL command.
>>
> 
> I think that is a very good idea indeed.
> 
> Since people will have to learn a new option name anyway they may
> just as well use the same option name as everyone else does on
> other operating systems instead of some artificial made-up DCL
> qualifier that only has meaning on VMS.
> 
> Printing out the underlying command will help them with that and
> using the same option name as everyone else uses will help when
> it comes to looking online for help on the option in question.
> 
> BTW, this isn't the first time I've seen this, IIRC. Didn't RSTS/E
> DCL have some option to print out the underlying CCL command when
> processing a user's DCL command ?
> 
> Simon.
> 

In RSX-11M DCL, SET DEBUG /[NO]EXECUTE shows (and optionally execute)
the MCR translation of any following DCL command.