[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

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On 02/05/2014 07:05 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>> > > Extensions and restrictions, necessary to support object file and image 
>>> > > file features that are specific to the OpenVMS operating system, will 
>>> > > be published in a future release.
>> > 
>> > I don't recall if these extensions were ever generally published.
>> > 
> Yes.  It is all in the Calling Standard Manual.  There is even an appendix listing
> the differences between the OpenVMS Calling Standard & ABI vs the
Intel Itanium
> Runtime Conventions and ABI. ...

I had the impression Hoff was talking about ELF extensions: starting
with the VMS specific note entries, the additional field in the ELF
header for images along the OS defined values for some header fields and
all the stuff in and appended to the dynamic segment.