[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Neil Rieck]

On May 25, 3:59 pm, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> JF Mezei schrieb:
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> > 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 ?
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> 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.
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> > Pardon my ignorance here, but does Macro32 *compiler* have 64 bit
> > extensions ?

I am in full agreement. C has replaced macro assemblers almost
everywhere. My cousin is a C-programmer in a big Canadian insurance
company. I like to poke him with the odd barbs about C but he always
has some good come backs. For example, when I told him "most people
consider C a low level language" he responded with "it is only low
level until add to includes". I guess that is sort of true with every
language.

NSR