[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[John Reagan]

"Bob Koehler"  wrote in message 
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>   Can you generate an example using a VMS Fortran compiler?

>   I have not seen any compiler that would generate different calling
>   conventions depending on whether the CHARACTER data was a variable
>   or a constant.

The VAX object format has the ability to change the calling sequence for the 
F66-style arguments.  I'm pretty sure it was not carried over to the Alpha 
and certainly not to the Itanium.