Re: [bug #41758] VMS Make incorrectly reports archives support present.

[John E. Malmberg]

On 6/20/2014 8:53 AM, h.becker wrote:
> On 06/14/2014 07:44 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>
>
> globalvalue is visible in /STANDARD=VAXC and /STANDARD=RELAXED which is
> the default. Is that what you refer to as 'ANSI compatible VMS
> extension'? The default gives at least fair diagnostics for VAXC
> problems. At the moment gnu make is compiled either without a standard
> switch or the /STANDARD=RELAXED, but with
> /WARNING=(DISABLE=QUESTCOMPARE). In stricter modes you can use something
> like
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> extern unsigned int LBR$_HDRTRUNC;
> int main (void) {
>          printf ("LBR$_HDRTRUNC: %%x%08x\n", &LBR$_HDRTRUNC);
> }

I will change the code to use an extern not as efficient as a constant, 
but the code is not on section that would really notice the difference 
in speed.

> and you may want to add at least DOLLARID to the disabled warning messages.

I plan on looking at the compiler options in the future.  They will be 
come more relevant when implementing dynamic loaded modules.

I consider /standard=vaxc == ignore potential bugs.

> > I will look at doing that in a future patch.  It appears that the
> > UNIVERSAL qualifier is ignored by non-VAX, so is not causing a problem.
>
> Like "%LINK-I-OPTIGNALPHA, UNIVERSAL option ignored; not allowed for AXP
> images" but
> %ILINK-F-OPTSYNERR, syntax error in options file ...
> -ILINK-E-OPTLIN, options line in error
>          'UNIVERSAL'=MAIN
> I didn't try the tests on I64, but the -F should trigger something.

I was not seeing this, but will remove it from the next patch.  I will 
not be posting an updated patch until next week though.

Regards,
-John