[Info-vax] Looking for suggestions for new $GETDVI item codes

[cmexec at gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 9:23:55 AM UTC-5, Bob Gezelter wrote:

> I would advocate for an approach which is both deliberate and embracive. First, qwuadwords responses are probably the right long-term destination. However, I would take the following steps to ease the transition and preserve presently operating images (including shared middleware and emulated/translated images).
> 
> - define a datatype for "disk block count" in the user system service header files (e.g., DVI$DiskBlockCountReturn). Presently, that would equate to 32 bits, later being defined to 64 bits. This would allow savy coders to write code that compiled correctly on BOTH old and future platforms.