Re: error reporting

2014-04-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
Note that in Unix, vsnprintf() returns the TOTAL number of chars needed (add 1 for the null). This is not correct. The buffer size (that you pass in) is the total number of bytes available (and the most the function shall use, including the terminator); but the *return* is the strlen() that

Re: error reporting

2014-04-09 Thread Edward Welbourne
I'm really not excited about the prospect of continuing to add new project files every year for each new version of Visual Studio. Isn't there any sort of backward-compatibility that allows the older files to work in newer Visual Studio releases? Don't hold your breath - it might be there,

Re: vms:test variables

2014-04-09 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 4/8/2014 12:48 PM, h.becker wrote: On 04/08/2014 07:28 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: On 4/7/2014 4:37 PM, h.becker wrote: $ @TEST_MAKE features.dir/archives ... ^^ This is a day one bug in the older Perl on VMS versions that was fixed in