[Info-vax] C troubles: BADSTATICCVT

DaveFroble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Sun Feb 4 16:43:22 EST 2018


Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/2/2018 4:43 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
>> There is that 1/3 of VMS still in Macro-32 code,
> 
> Many years go (25?) the word was that VMS was
> 1/3 Macro-32, 1/3 Bliss and 1/3 everything else.
> 
> But is that still the case?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Anyone from past or current VMS engineering that want to
> comment?
> 
> Arne

Clair commented a while back that nothing NEW would be in Macro-32.  I agree, 
since it's a hold-over from the VAX.

However, when doing small modifications, I'd hope they don't throw out 
everything and re-write.  Not a good use of their limited resources.

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