[Info-vax] PostgreSQL (Re: open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes))

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kjl6uv$b72$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2013-04-05 00:24:27 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:
> 
>> In article <5cce1080-517e-40bc-bf57-7daad6f91956 at googlegroups.com>,
>> 	BillPedersen <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> writes:
>>> Actually, we do not care what language you use or even if you use a 
>>> language.  If you have a favorite open source application written in 
>>> any language we would be happy to help you and have your involvement.
>>> We can also use people interested in helping spread the word, run 
>>> tests, manage the VMS-Ports site.  Write wiki articles.  Many, many 
>>> tasks besides programming and porting.
>>> Yes, some of the major support efforts are in C and the CRTL is a major 
>>> focus of issues.  Much of the open source software is written in C.  
>>> But there are also open source applications written in Fortran, COBOL, 
>>> Pascal and other languages. But knowledge of C is not required.
>>> As far as transfer vectors they are alive and well and important to 
>>> allow upgrades of sharable libraries to be done without impacting the 
>>> executables calling them.  Recent work done as a part of some porting 
>>> work has made the transfer vector mechanism nearly identical across all 
>>> three architectures of OpenVMS.
>>> Bill.
>> 
>> I would like to see the ones written in COBOL.  Got any pointers?  :-)
> 
> The transfer vectors (VAX) or symbol vectors (Alpha, Itanium) do not 
> vary by language.   VAX uses a block of assembler, while Alpha and 
> Itanium use linker directives.  (Sure, it would have been nice to add 
> compatible linker directive to VAX, but the goal back then was to get 
> to Alpha and to enhance and update Alpha. What VAX had with its 
> transfer vectors worked, and was already in wide use.)
> 
> Various tools to build the vectors from common sources are available.  
> I've linked to one earlier in this thread, and I suspect gnv has its 
> own implementation.
> 
> As for a COBOL shareable image example, there's one available in the 
> fine manual:
> 
> http://h30266.www3.hp.com/odl/vax/progtool/cobol57a/6297/6297_profile_005.html

I wasn't talking about any vectors.  Bill said "But there are also open
source applications written in Fortran, COBOL".  I would like to see
some of these "open source applications" that are written in COBOL.

bill

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