[Info-vax] PL/1 on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/23/2012 9:01 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> "Arne Vajhøj" wrote in message
> news:4f1e0507$0$281$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
>> I suspect that Macro->C could be difficult.
>
> For simple ones, you could write a tool. I've seen a Macro-64 to C tool.
> You get C with variables with names of R0, R1, etc.
>
> Once you start passing values in registers or jumping between routines,
> the resulting C is disgusting (<insert joke here>)

Or calling stuff that is expecting to be called from
real Macro and therefore using the real registers.

Or using the stack and calls.

Or probably 117 other things.

Arne