[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

 JF Mezei wrote:
> Re: C and buffer overflows.
> 
> Is there a language which keeps 2 values for each string: amount
> allocated and amount currently in use ?

    The STR$ routines in the VMS RTL and, IIRC, the latest Fortran
    standard, support dynamic length strings.  This allows the allocated
    and used length to be the same.