Re: [PATCH] Enhance/fix VMS setting of program name, MAKE/MAKE_COMMAND, variables

[h.becker]

On 08/26/2014 11:19 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
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>                 progname = malloc(strlen(p) + 1);
> 
> Can malloc fail on VMS?
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>                 if (0 == strcasecmp(&progname[len - 4], ".exe"))
> 
> What if len is less than 4?

Parsing the file specification myself wasn't a good idea. I should have
known better. I'll change the code and let VMS do the parsing. This code
is in a VMS specific source anyway. And I'll use xmalloc() as pointed
out by Paul.

Thanks for reviewing the code,
Hartmut