[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[John Reagan]

On Friday, April 26, 2019 at 3:08:09 PM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 4/26/2019 1:40 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
> > What will be the basis for x86-64 TECO ? Will it be built from
> > source or will it also be translated from Alpha ?
> 
> TECO cannot be built from source on Alpha, IA64, or X86_64.
> 
> The MACRO-32 compiler simply cannot handle the exploration of the
> MACRO-32 syntax that TECO uses.
> 
> Reagan can give the details.
> 
> 
> -- 
>                   -- Rob

My understanding is that it does both co-routines (modifies saved return addresses on the VAX stack) and JSBs that return condition codes.  Both of these are not supported by the Macro compiler.