From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Re: DEC VMS C compiler. Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7635 Posted: Fri Jun 11 22:59:09 1982 Received: Sun Jun 13 02:19:14 1982 >From ucbcad.jimbo@Berkeley Fri Jun 11 22:57:31 1982 As of January, the compiler used the system linker and as a result (second hand info) you cannot use underscores and upper/lower case is not distinguished in external (global) identifiers. Don't recall, but I think the identifier length was one shorter than usual. Unique structure member names are required (as with Ritchie & pcc but not bsd) which makes packaging more difficult. Don't know if they implemented passing/returning of structures. Jim Kleckner ( ucbvax!ucbcad!jimbo )