[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> John Reagan wrote:
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>>ones as BLISS source and turn the BLISS frontend into the translator tool. 
>>Ensures source compatibility.  Debugging the code would be a PITA.  Or use 
>>some Perl/translator-tool into C.  Same problems debugging.
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> Wouldn't it be easier to translate Bliss into Macro32 and then use the
> existing macro32 compiler to get to it to the target platform ?

Wouldn't it be even easier to have the Bliss compiler
(and all other strange stuff)
recoded in C, so it would be just another piece of C software
which has to be compiled for a VMS build?
You could keep your beloved Bliss based utilities
but they would no longer be showstoppers for portability.

> Pardon my ignorance here, but does Macro32 *compiler* have 64 bit
> extensions ?