Is this ok??

[Henry Spencer]

In article <DAVIS.91Mar6213546 at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis at 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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