[Info-vax] C compiler snag

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-21, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2021-05-21, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'll do more research but there is nothing of your description that matches what
>> I know.  There is some GEM code mixed in as well.  I don't see the C compiler (or
>> the C++) compiler doing anything to avoid DECC$ logicals.  For example, turn on
>> DECC$POSIX_COMPLIANT_PATHNAMES and watch the compiler not able to find
>> .TLB files, etc.  
>
> John is very right about this. There is a problem when you use net/
> within an include statement. The following code compiles: !!!

That is John Malmberg is right about this. Too many people called John
around here. :-)

Simon.

>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ type nettest.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <net/does_not_exist.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>         {
>         printf("Testing net include\n");
>         return 0;
>         }
> $ cc nettest.c
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Change this to the following and you get the expected error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ type nettest.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <net1/does_not_exist.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>         {
>         printf("Testing net include\n");
>         return 0;
>         }
> $ cc nettest.c
>
> #include <net1/does_not_exist.h>
> .^
> %CC-F-NOINCLFILEF, Cannot find file <net1/does_not_exist.h> specified in #includ
> e directive.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> $ cc/version
> VSI C V7.4-002 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L2
>
> Simon.
>


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