[Info-vax] Possible VMS jobs - City of New York Fire Dept

[Dave Froble]

On 10/26/2019 6:26 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:

> Port VMS code from VAX to Itanium, just recompile and relink, right? HAHAHA,

Well, for some it was just that simple, or at least not too bad.

The biggest problem we ran into is that on VAX we were incrementing the 
AP as we read the arguments.  Macro-32 compiler didn't like that.  The 
fix was rather simple.

The other minor problem was some dummy who was playing with descriptors, 
and was using the wrong descriptor definition.  Only one subprogram. 
The interesting thing is, Alpha didn't throw an error, the itanic did.

See, I was wrong once ...

:-)

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