[Info-vax] c 7.3 - Why MAYLOSEDATA3 for long pointer math?

[Bob Gezelter]

On Thursday, July 24, 2014 at 9:01:00 PM UTC-4, John Reagan wrote:
> On Thursday, July 24, 2014 6:41:41 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> > Where there's a will there's a way. The Microsoft C/C++ compiler is a
> > 32-bit program even when running on 64-bit Windows, but its size_t is 64
> > bit when the build target is a 64-bit platform.
> 
> Didn't say it wasn't possible.  Just said it wasn't easy or worth our effort at the time.

John,

I know the queue of issues to be addressed is a long. Considering the impact on code porting of extant non-OpenVMS codebases, perhaps this decision should be reconsidered in the present context.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com