[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Tue Dec 1 08:41:13 EST 2009


In article <EaOdnePf1dQshInWnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
> 
> Argument slots (per the Calling Standard) are 64-bits wide period. 
> Addresses passed as arguments are sign-extended to 64-bits.  The called 
> routines depend on that since system-space addresses rely on that.
> 

   And if you're using P2 space, can't you do that without any pointer
   variables in your code (like declaring huge arrays that don't all
   fit into P0 space).




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