The install, etc, is set up to use MVS libraries, not Open MVS. I have not tried the compiler, etc, under Open MVS.
I have extracted a few functions from the C library and compiled them using the xlc compiler under Open MVS with and without the METAL option. The ones that I have tried do what I need them to do. Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, February 3, 2012 10:23:29 AM Subject: Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS) On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:31:12 -0800, Lloyd Fuller wrote: >There is an older version of GCC that is ported to z/OS on the CBT. As far as I >am concerned one of the advantages of GCC is that it is NOT LE so you can use it >in places that you cannot use normal z/OS C. And it has a larger library than >the METAL option of xlc. > How does it play with Unix System Services? The first few things that come to mind are: o Unix files o Header file libraries o Descriptors, including pipes o fork() o Environment variables ??? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
