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OpenVMS Associated Products Release Notes

3.4 C and C++

• In the Australia timezone ﬁle, the rules for the following time zones have

been updated:

Time Zone Name Territory or State

ACT Australia Capital Territory

NSW New South Wales

NT Northern Territory

QLD Queensland

SA South Australia

TAS Tasmania

VIC Victoria

WA Western Australia

3.4.2 STARLET Header Files Now Ship with OpenVMS VAX

V7.1

Starting with Version 7.1, OpenVMS VAX directly supplies the STARLET header

ﬁles for Compaq C and Compaq C++ in SYS$LIBRARY:SYS$STARLET_C.TLB, as

has always been done on OpenVMS Alpha systems. Compaq C and Compaq C++

compiler Versions 5.2 or later are required to access the STARLET headers. See

a warning about installing earlier Compaq C and Compaq C++ compiler versions

on OpenVMS VAX in Section 3.4.3.

The content of the STARLET headers has also been edited to correct deﬁciencies

in versions supplied by the Compaq C and Compaq C++ compilers in releases

prior to Version 7.1.

3.4.3 Pre-Version 5.2 Kits May Delete SYS$STARLET_C.TLB (VAX Only)

V7.1

Installing a version of the Compaq C or Compaq C++ compiler lower than

Version 5.2 on OpenVMS VAX Version 7.1 or higher might damage or delete

SYS$LIBRARY:SYS$STARLET_C.TLB. (See Section 3.4.4 for another warning

about installing Compaq C++ Version 5.3 on OpenVMS VAX.)

3.4.4 Compaq C++ Version 5.3 Installation Fails (VAX Only)

V7.1

When you attempt to install Compaq C++ Version 5.3 on VAX systems running

OpenVMS, the installation fails because the Version 5.3 kit fails to install the

system headers.

Compaq C++ Version 5.4 corrects these problems.

3.5 COBOL (Alpha Only)—RMS Special Registers and RMS$_FNM

Compared to RMS$CRE

V7.3

Due to the addition of Extended File Support in OpenVMS Alpha V7.2 you

may notice changes in the handling of I/O runtime diagnostics and RMS special

registers on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2 and higher. In particular, a long ﬁlename

that produced RMS$_FNM under versions of OpenVMS Alpha prior to V7.2 now

produces RMS$_CRE on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2 and higher. This difference is

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