[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[John Reagan]

"Bob Koehler"  wrote in message 
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>>In article <qcKdnRmnLMttzljSnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John Reagan" 
>><johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:

>> The
>> ability in BASIC, COBOL, etc. to build OpenVMS descriptors wouldn't be 
>> found
>> in any other variant for x86.

>   An OpenVMS descriptor is a fully documented data structure, and I'm
>   not sure I've ever seen an HLL where I couldn't build it.

I was talking about the compiler automatically building the descriptors on 
your behalf.  Pascal and BASIC do it all the time.  You have %STDESCR in 
Fortran, etc.  In order to interface with existing OTS$ and STR$ calls, 
you'd want the compilers to continue to do all that work.  Having to go into 
your BASIC program and build your own CLASS_D descriptors would not be 
considered 'recompile and go'.