[Info-vax] The Road to V9.0

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 10/13/2019 3:18 PM, Dave Froble wrote:

> Question for you John ...
> 
> Are these problems you're correcting actual poor / bad coding?  I'm getting the 
> impression that for most it's just in the conversion to LLVM.

The BLISS code is not in error and will not be modified.  Although John provided
a workaround for the EDT issue, I'm going to wait for a newer compiler, because
there are too many instances of that coding style for me to make a lot of 
changes that will not be necessary once we have a newer compiler.

To be clear, the code in question is NOT either poor, unsafe, or otherwise
non-standard.

> Will the modified code still work on VAX / Alpha / itanic, or is it not backward 
> compatible?

The code that's being modified is in the compiler tool chain, likely in the 
GEM-to-LLVM shim.

The application code in question will remain as is.

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                  -- Rob