[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-07-09, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/19 3:08 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> It's to do with the fact that assembly language is so low level
>> and error prone even when compared to C.
>
> The current MACRO-32 compiler can not be low level by any stretch
> of the imagination. I can not believe any VAX instruction would
> map directly and with the same semantics with the instruction set
> of the Alpha or the IA64.  The same would be true for the x86-64.
>

Who said anything about the compiler ?

I was talking about the language the user writes their code in and
Macro-32 is a far lower level and more error prone language than
even C is.

Simon.

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