[Info-vax] Screen management in C

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/27/2024 2:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/27/2024 11:12 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 12/27/24 9:17 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Because SMG$ are supporting Pascal/Basic/Cobol/Fortran then
>>> many arguments are pass by descriptor and you will need to setup
>>> those in C, so some familiarity with descriptors will be required.
>>
>> This has been discussed previously here:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/ufBEqvGdglU
>>
>> That discussion has pointers to various examples,
> 
> In general VMS Pascal/VMS Basic code should be maybe 25% shorter
> than equivalent C code. But with a descriptor centric API like
> SMG$ then it may be more like 40% shorter.
> 
> One could make a nice wrapper in C++ encapsulating the context
> and convert between stl::string / C char array and descriptors.

If anyone want to try, then I suggest:

$ CXX/POINTER=32 ...

or you will regret it.

Arne