[Info-vax] calloc fails with access violation

[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <4sudnQFAnYm5FgnXnZ2dnUVZ_o6dnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <cp9em6-804.ln1 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, Jim Duff <spam.this at 127.0.0.1> writes:
>>>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>> In article <a42em6-202.ln1 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, Jim Duff <spam.this at 127.0.0.1> writes:
>>>>>> Jose Cuevas wrote:
>>>>>>> On Aug 24, 1:45 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>>>>> In article <aecec9c9-3fe0-4b76-b37a-c5cd9ebf5... at a13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, Jose Cuevas <jcue... at mac.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>> Don't post a snippet of the code which you are questioning -- hint,
>>>>>>>> hint.  
>>>>>> Perhaps you should be a little more explicit, Brian.  Perhaps asking for
>>>>>> a snippet of code that *actually demonstrates the problem* (unlike the
>>>>>> code that's posted below) would be a good idea ;-)
>>>>> Well, I suppose I need to be little less terse at times. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> He's been asked to supply the stack dump too.  Maybe that request was
>>>>> too terse as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> How's life back down-under?
>>>>>
>>>> All good.  Seems people are wanting to port from Alpha to IA64 at the
>>>> moment.  It reminds me of the early 1990s :-)
>>> Harsh and painful memories indeed.
>>>
>> Most of the VAX to Alpha conversion was pretty easy.  I'm sure that 
>> there were a few people who had problems but for most of us, it was 
>> recompile, link, and go.  Sometimes it was compile, fix the errors, 
>> recompile, . . . .
>>
>> I took the opportunity to do a little cleaning up.  Some of that old 
>> code had variables that were never used for anything!  There were return 
>> codes never checked for success or failure. . . .  The sins of thirty 
>> years exposed to the pitiless light of day!
> 
> That's not the part that was so harsh and painful.

Just what DID you find so "harsh and painful"?  If you didn't build page 
size dependencies into your code the conversion should not have been 
that difficult.

What DID get a little tedious was porting IBM 7090 FORTRAN to System/360 
and/or VAX/VMS.  IIRC it was 36 bit words and six bit characters to 32 
bit words and eight bit bytes.