[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <0Epym.2136$SO7.1146 at newsfe15.ams2>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>> 
>>    It's simple.  Avoid any call that passes an output parameter by
>>    pointer but doesn't pass in input parameter provinding the allocated
>>    length.
>> 
> 
> You can get the equivalent of call by descriptor by declaring a structure:
> 

   Of course you can.  You can also update the C language standard.