[Info-vax] 64 bit DCL ?

[cmexec at gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 4:21:01 PM UTC-5, JF Mezei wrote:
> Just wondering out-bit  (instead of out-loud :-)
> 
> If DCL integer values were suddently moved to 64 bits, whould existing
> code that only looks at 32 bits break ? (for instance doing bit tricks
> within DCL or would having extra high order bits not make a difference ?
> 
> or would the move to 64 bit integers be more or less transparent for
> most DCL (VAXman need not apply, he doesn't do "normal" :-)
> 
> If it does cause trouble, what sort of uses would break ?

There is probably a huge amount of DCL that would not break.  But it is not
consistent with the history of VMS to break the rest of it.  Existing code should
continue to run, even if its a minority of samples.