[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-23, Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
> "Robert A. Brooks" <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> writes:
>
>>We (VSI VMS engineering) have MACRO code that we know would pretty much be 
>>impossible to port to any other language (I'm thinking of the host-based 
>>shadowing driver).  It would need to be a complete rewrite.
>
> Watch your language! Sh*d*w*ng is a 4 letter word! There may be children reading
> this!  I need garlic, crosses and a wooden stake now! And daylight!! And a silver
> bullet! Oh wait, that's for Bliss-32 code, isn't it.
>
> And besides, without sh*d*w*ng in Macro, how will John Reagan test versions
> of the macro compiler to insane limits?
>

Perhaps John needs to up his bounties for Macro-32 to C conversions ? :-)

How much work would be involved in a rewrite of the shadowing code in C ?

If you ever need to make major changes to the shadowing code in the future,
perhaps such an effort might be worth it ?

You could end up with a nicely modular piece of code written to current
module based standards which sounds like it would be a lot easier to
change in the future (based on some previous comments about the shadowing
code).

Simon.

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