[Info-vax] How far away is first boot ?

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 5/8/2019 1:24 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 5/8/2019 10:23 AM, John Reagan wrote:
 
>> Here's an example of the latest bug (which we initially thought was
>> a Macro compiler bug)
 
> Will the Macro-32 compiler, as "fixed" for x86, still work on Alpha
> and itanic?  Or will you need to have more than one common code base?
> One really doesn't want to consider errors introduced into the Alpha
> or itanic compilers to fix x86 issues.

As John said, it was not a compiler issue; it was a coding bug.

The code is common across Alpha, IA64, and X86.  There are some architecture-specific modules, but it is
a single code base; it's not separate as the VAX code was separate from Alpha/IA64.

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                      -- Rob