Bulletin number:  378
Products affected: D6205A D6214A
Description: Uppercase characters in command line parameters
Component: all tools
Date: Wed Feb 19 15:21:39 GMT 1992
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When our tools are hosted on a VAX system all commands are passed
through the command line interpreter and the C run-time system.  The
interpreter converts all characters to uppercase.  The C run-time
system compensates by converting everything to lowercase.  This is not
good in the case of #define from the command line in C.
 
For example, the command line
 
   ICC /DTEST A.C
 
looks to the compiler like
 
   icc /dtest a.c
 
If any ifdefs depend on the case of the token they will be wrong.
 
The solution is to use double quotes around the parts that must be in
uppercase.  That is, to do the equivalent of
 
   #define TEST 3
 
from the command line, you must use
 
   icc /d"TEST=3"
 
The same applies to all of our tools hosted on the VAX using VMS.