[Info-vax] C troubles: BADSTATICCVT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/3/2018 8:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-02-03, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> My assumption is that:
>> - a lot of new code has been added since then
>> - much less than 1/3 of the new code has been written in
>>     Macro-32
>>
>> Which should mean that the Macro-32 share of VMS
>> is less than 1/3 today.
> 
> Maybe. The real question is not the percentage, but the actual amount
> of Macro-32 code. I'm hoping that hasn't gone up, but has the actual
> amount of Macro-32 code been reduced by a significant amount ?

That sounds unlikely to me.

I don't think DEC/CPQ/HP has invested money in getting off Macro-32.

Any code removed is likely to have been code that needed to be
totally rewritten anyway as part of the ISA migrations.

Arne