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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <000e0216$0$2113$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> While the port to Alpha was not as painful as some african manhood
> ritual, if you went from VAX-C to DEC-C, then it was more than just a
> couple lines of code to change. While the changes were fairly mechanical
> in nature, you still needed to go through it.

   That depends a lot on your C coding habits.  Ours were fairly
   compatable with DEC C.  But you could get away with a lot of things
   in VAX C that DEC C wouldn't accept.

   Macro-32 was a lot like that.  You can do a lot of things that
   won't pass through the compiler on Alpha, but our coding habits
   didn't.