[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 7/2/2017 5:41 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2017-07-02, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>> On 7/2/2017 1:21 AM, mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>  From the June 2017 VMS Roadmap, under "Research Areas" (slide 3) ...
>>>
>>> "Additional Scripting Languages"
>>>
>>> I guess we'll learn more the track but maybe it will incorporate 64-bit
>>> integers and all the associated changes that this would require (e.g. lexical
>>> functions overlaying system services).
>>
>> The thought is that DCL will always be the command parser, and some other
>> language (likely open source) would be used for scripting.
>>
> 
> Will you be running this scripting language as a normal user mode
> (not supervisor mode) image without any privileges other than those
> already granted to the user ?

Whereas I said "This issue isn't getting much focus by us yet, however.",
I probably should have said "this issue is getting no attention (that
I'm aware of) right now."

Whatever discussions I've heard have been more
along the lines of "the easiest way to fix the 32-bit limitation in DCL
is to offer another scripting language".

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                  -- Rob