[Info-vax] New VSI blog post

[Richard Jordan]

On 7/29/24 6:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> For those that have not seen it:
> 
> https://vmssoftware.com/resources/blog/2024-07-26-rtl8/
> 
> (Darya is listed as author, John Reagan is quoted in it)
> 
> Content is a rather unusual mix of:
> * some business/admin stuff
>      - 8.4-2L1 going out of standard support in December
>        so time to update to 8.4-2L3
>      - a warning about known issues in C RTL 8 and a suggestion
>        to wait for C RTL 9
> * some programming notes about problems related to:
>      - use of uninitialized variables
>      - mismatch between 32 and 64 bit
> 
> Arne
> 
> 
Just to request clarification... are the C RTL issues across all 
platforms or just x86 specific?  The blog post mentioned the legacy GEM 
compiler "would" (past tense) pad the space and the LLVM does not.

We're not getting LLVM behavior on the older systems, are we?  Alpha and 
Integrity behavior will remain the same?

I ask because we no longer have access to a C compiler; connecting code 
was built to interface BASIC to FreeTDS, GSOAP and other packages long 
ago when we had the HP developer licenses which are long gone.  I only 
have access to BASIC (which is the primary language) and really don't 
want to try to rewrite the connector code if it turns out to have 
problems on an upgraded test system.

And also don't want to find out we have issues with any packages that 
VSI may no longer be supporting (like GSOAP?)

Thanks