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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Michael Moroney wrote:
> "Tim E. Sneddon" <tim.sneddon at bigpond.com> writes:
>> Bob Gezelter wrote:
>>> In any event, the use of MACRO-32 is not the impediment. It has been
>>> proven twice (e.g., ALPHA, Itanium) that a compiler can be
>>> straightforwardly constructed to convert MACRO-32 in to the native
> 
>> I think that might be a bit of a stretch of the meaning of
>> straightforward.
> 
> It certainly is.  There are lots and lots of "tricks" used on VAX
> assembly code that the Macro-32 compiler on Alpha/Itanic won't tolerate.
> (Believe me, I know from experience)  

Sure there would be problems.

But I don't think the problems would be great enough to stop
a porting projects with funding and support from the top.

Arne