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From: PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: LIB$INIT_TIMER
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Date: 22 May 88 00:15:53 GMT
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The documentation for LIB$INIT_TIMER states that it takes different actions
base on whether the argument handle-adr is absent, zero, or non-zero.

How do you get the "absent" effect when calling from C?  I have invariably
found that I have to specify a 0 explicitly as a parameter when calling
system routines where if I were using FORTRAN I would leave the argument
blank.

Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)