[Info-vax] Roadmap

[John Reagan]

On Monday, January 7, 2019 at 2:06:29 PM UTC-5, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <8e34e423-4b9d-4a1d-8b4e-0115c9d34319 at googlegroups.com>, gezelter at rlgsc.com writes:
> > 
> > However, in some cases, a program compiled with IEEE floating point may nee=
> > d to access a binary file or a memory-resident data structure with a VAX fl=
> > oating point representation. It is for this reason that I proposed adding t=
> > he OpenVMS-specific optional qualifier.
> > 
> 
>    Or write in Fortran, where the I/O subsystem will convert on the fly,
>    even to/from formats only supported by hardware VMS never ran on.

I was avoiding mentioning this feature since it involves DFOR$ "feature logicals" :)

SORT /KEY knows the floating types as well (F/D/G/S/T but not X for some reason) on Alpha and Itanium.