[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Michael Moroney]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

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

$ dir/size/grand xf72_resd$:[shadowing*.src]*.mar;

Grand total of 12 directories, 55 files, 9878 blocks.
$

This is after an automated procedure removed about 400 blocks of unused code.

(there are some duplicates in the directory tree due to how the VMS build procedure 
works, but still...)

>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).

And peace in the Middle East and ending world hunger are wonderful ideas!

Right now there are two of us at VSI who know (the horrors of) the shadowing
driver. It might take us a while to convert it, especially since right now, VSI
has better uses for us.  I do dread the day in a couple years, after the new file
system is out, that customers start asking to use it with shadowing...