[FreeVMS] New release 0.3.17

[Guido]

On 03/11/2015 12:35 PM, Roar Thronæs wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:49:33AM +0100, Guido wrote:
>> Forgot to mention that it's a 32 bit Debain system inside VirtualBox.
>> The only thing I do to reproduce the error is that I remove the
>> freevms386.iomm directory and run ./envscript.
> Now I got it, too, when trying 32-bit Debian 7.
> The two servers I am using for development are 32-bit Debian 6 and
> 64-bit Debian 7, and I thought these two combinations were sufficient.
> (Will update the git and web page for this.)
>
> But you may try one of these two.
> (Not sure when I get the time to fix this compile error,
> since it also will require a full rebuild of the two other,
> plus running some of the testing scripts for all three when running FreeVMS.)
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
I digged around in the code a bit and I found some room for improvement 
which might also fix build problems, portabilty issues, instability 
and/or improve maintainability.

Most notable:
- Circular dependencies
- Inconsistent use of fundamental types (preferably avoid fundamental 
types altogether)
- In general, lack of a coding standard (and not enforced)
- Little documentation

I'm willing to put some effort into this, although my time will be 
limited to a few hours a week. Please let me know if I can help.

Guido