topic Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does in Operating System - OpenVMS

CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Travis Craig — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:55:21 GMT

I have an OpenVMS V7.3-1 system on which CC thinks __CRTL_VER is
70312000
and CXX thinks it is
70310022

I'm trying to use the snprintf() and vsnprintf() functions and stdio.h makes them visible only if __CRTL_VER is >=70312000.

So, they are visible to CC, but not CXX, on the same machine with the same C run-time library. Has anybody encountered this and do you know how to fix it? I tried the VMS731_ACRTL_V0400 patch, but that made no difference. Is there a compiler patch? I haven't run into those. I have:

CC V6.5-001
CXX V6.5-004

My uses of the function are, of course, in some C++ modules.

--Travis Craig

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Karl Rohwedder — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:41:33 GMT

Our CXX compiler has the version:

Compaq C++ V6.5-039 for OpenVMS Alpha V8.2

regards Kalle

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Ian Miller. — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 03:40:04 GMT

Just a thought but - Did you install C before or after C++ and have you installed any CRTL patches?

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 04:50:28 GMT

Just a guess : show log *crtl*.
2 logicals to different files ?

WIm

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Travis Craig — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:31:25 GMT

Thanks, everybody, for the replies.

It looks like CC was installed (moments) after CXX. Does order matter?

When you say "CRTL patches," Ian, do you mean the ones like VMS731_ACRTL_V0400 (which I installed), or some other ones for the compilers themselves? I haven't been able to find any patches for compilers mentioned online. Maybe it's time to go down and look at the layered product disks.

I see no suspicious looking logical names, none that look related to compiler or library versions.

--Travis

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Ian Miller. — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:06:56 GMT

Yes CRTL patches like that one.
I don't know how the compilers determines the CRTL version.

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Kris Clippeleyr — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:51:35 GMT

Travis,

I got the same phenomenon on our development cluster (VMS 7.3-1, CC V6.5-001, CXX V6.5-004).
However, I've included a small program that not only uses __CRTL_VER but also DECC$$GL___CRTL_VER. Please compile it with both CC and CXX, and mark the difference.
Here the version compiled with CC, prints the same value for __CRTL_VER and DECC$$GL___CRTL_VER. If compiled with CXX, the values differ. It seems that the global longword DECC$$GL___CRTL_VER is defined in SYS$SHARE:DECC$CRTL.EXE, and for CC has the same value as __CRTL_VER. Unfortunately this is not the case for CXX.

Regards,
Kris (aka Qkcl)

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Kris Clippeleyr — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:03:16 GMT

Hi Travis,
Back again. Please have a look at the file SYS$SHARE:DECC$CRTL.README. It says somewhere

The default value assigned to the predefined macro __CRTL_VER differs between Compaq C and Compaq C++. Compaq C will default __CRTL_VER to the value found within the DECC$CRTL.EXE name mapping table. Compaq C++ does not examine this value with the shareable image. Compaq C++ defaults __CRTL_VER to the same value as __VMS_VER.

So, I think you better compile your C++ sources with /DEFINE=__CRTL_VER=70312000 (the value found in DECC$CRTL.EXE).

Regards,
Kris (aka Qkcl)

Re: CXX thinks CRTL version is older than CC does

Travis Craig — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:39:07 GMT

Thanks, everybody. That last one looks like a definitive answer to me. Back to fighting with Windows and UNIX now. :-)

--Travis