[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Friday, 13 March 2015 22:49:30 UTC, Stephen Hoffman  wrote:
> On 2015-03-13 21:52:11 +0000, John Reagan said:
> 
> > Just as soon as 64-bit descriptors become the default, all the code 
> > that handles descriptors today gets updated, all the languages do 
> > 64-bit pointers, etc.  Makes the whole 'recompile and go' rather nasty 
> > especially in a mixed-architecture cluster.
> 
> I am very well aware of the differences in the code.
> 


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> Don't sell the future of OpenVMS OS and application development short.  
> Don't make future work harder.
> 
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You're aware of the differences in the code and the data structures
between a 32bit world and a 64bit world, fair enough. Obviously JR
is too.

But the rest of us may still get some enlightenment from JR's and your
explanations.