[Info-vax] Porting old stuff from VAX to Itanium...

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-08-26 16:16:49 +0000, John Reagan said:

> On Sunday, August 26, 2018 at 11:45:29 AM UTC-4, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> 
> I'll answer each.
> 
> TL;DR.  All of these are benign and the
>> ...
>> $ pascal /environment = int: /object = int: src:dspn$shr.pas
>> 
>> tcpip_addr := dspn$data.node[node_index].tcpip_addr;
>> ........^
>> ,,,
> 
> Do you need your record layout to be the same as on the VAX?  Are you 
> passing it around to other routines in other languages? ...

And one or two more, if it's not already obvious...   If this code is 
used outside of an isolated, private IP network and potentially even 
within such, expect to be updating that code to add support for IPv6 
addressing and/or to add authentication and data security, too.



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