Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is this ok??
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.173712.18201@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1991 17:37:12 GMT
References: <DAVIS.91Mar6213546@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <DAVIS.91Mar6213546@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu  (John E. Davis) writes:
>   The following code works on sun4 and ultrix but crashes on VMS.  Just when
>I thought I understood pointers.....
> ...
>int main()
>  {
> ...
>      return(0);
>  }

My tentative diagnosis is that you understand pointers but don't understand
VMS exit status!  0 is *not* "success" in VMS.  They're going to have to do
something about this to conform to ANSI C, but they may not have figured
that out yet.

The pointer part of your program looks fine.
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