[Info-vax] $PAGEDEF in OpenVMS VAX STARLET.MLB missing....

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In article <maPIzCHoLa$8 at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <nospam-6E9608.05120702042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> 
>> I wondered if the reason it doesn't exist on VAX is because that had 
>> fixed page sizes.
>
>   It wasn't needed back when VMS was written for VAX.  It was expected
>   to be needed for Alpha, but I don't recall DEC every producing an
>   Alpha with a page size different from the 20064.

$PAGEDEF doesn't help in any way with variable page sizing on Alpha or on
Itanium.  That information should be obtained from MMG$G{L/Q)_PAGE_SIZE or
from its MMG brethren such as MMG$G{L/Q}_BWP_MASK or MMG$G{L/Q}_BWP_WIDTH.

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