[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:21:36 +0100, Wilm Boerhout wrote:

>> VMS exit status is essentially a 32 bit value. The low order bit is 1
>> for success, zero for failure.
> 
> But, open source and or "foreign" programs ported to VMS may not always
> exit with a VMS exit status value.
> 
> Both DEC C ($CC) and and HP C++ ($CXX) compilers exit with even status
> values on compilation errors.

That's really the point I was making. It's what he needs for configure.

(When I've ported something to VMS, I've always made a point of adjusting 
exit status so that it's VMS-compliant).



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