[Info-vax] calloc fails with access violation

Rich Alderson news at alderson.users.panix.com
Wed Aug 26 17:34:50 EDT 2009


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:

> 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.

Yup.  As bad as porting from the PDP-10 (though character data there is
normally 7-bit ASCII, rather than SIXBIT).  Those too short words are a bear.

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Rich Alderson                  "You get what anybody gets. You get a lifetime."
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