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

[Marc Van Dyck]

Stephen Hoffman expressed precisely :
> 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.

It's just management of addresses - a kind of CMDB, if you want. The
code itself does not do anything with those addresses.

-- 
Marc Van Dyck