Have the VMS exit code follow POSIX conventions

It seems like the convention for VMS exit codes is to combine the VMS
C facility code (0x35a000) with a recoded exit code as follows:

    0     => 1
    1-255 => 8*code + 2

We also add 0x10000000, which is the control bit that has DCL not
report the error on the terminal.  That's just as well, since it would
be quite nonsensical, for example:

    %C-W-NOMSG, Message number 0035A018

We could do all this by using the normal exit() function after having
defined the macro _POSIX_EXIT.  Unfortunately, this feature only
exists in VMS C V7.1 and up.

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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Richard Levitte 2016-01-13 17:00:22 +01:00
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@ -377,6 +377,13 @@ extern FILE *_imp___iob;
So, what we do here is to change 0 to 1 to get the default success status,
and everything else is shifted up to fit into the status number field, and
the status is tagged as an error, which I believe is what is wanted here.
Finally, we add the VMS C facility code 0x35a000, because there are some
programs, such as Perl, that will reinterpret the code back to something
POSIXly. 'man perlvms' explains it further.
NOTE: the perlvms manual wants to turn all codes 2 to 255 into success
codes (status type = 1). I couldn't disagree more. Fortunately, the
status type doesn't seem to bother Perl.
-- Richard Levitte
*/
# define EXIT(n) do { int __VMS_EXIT = n; \
@ -385,6 +392,7 @@ extern FILE *_imp___iob;
else \
__VMS_EXIT = (n << 3) | 2; \
__VMS_EXIT |= 0x10000000; \
__VMS_EXIT |= 0x35a000; \
exit(__VMS_EXIT); } while(0)
# define NO_SYS_PARAM_H
# define NO_SYS_UN_H