[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 19:11 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-02-06, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> > 
> > As for BUGCHKs, they're best left to system level things such as
> > device drivers. I think users would be rather displeased if a
> > program kept
> > taking down the operating system with it given bad inputs :-D
> > 
> You can have application level bugchecks that take down the
> application only and in a controlled manner. That's also what I am
> talking about here in addition to the system-level bugchecks.

I wasn't aware that was possible, one learns something new!

> Application code I write tends to be full of internal self checks.
> 

If only that was true of most software. 

> > I faintly recall using an '&' in a certain way on VMS 4.2(?) would
> > crash it. 
> 
> That doesn't surprise me. :-)

It just seems rather odd as OpenVMS is supposed to be bulletproof :-D
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