[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-06-24 kl. 15:59, skrev 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.
> $
> 

And how many "Records searched:" from:

$ sea/stat/win=0 xf72_resd$:[shadowing*.src]*.mar; qwertyasdfgh

?




> 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...
> 

So the new file system will not support shadowing from the start?