[Info-vax] C and assembly language, was: Re: WHY IS VSI REQUIRING A HYPERVISOR FOR X86 OPENVMS?

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 12/22/2020 11:30 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-12-21, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-remove at this-gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apropos DECnet IV: a bunch of us in the HECnet alternate universe have
>> been running pydecnet (that is, DECnet IV written in python from the
>> original DECnet specifications) for a while now, thanks to Paul Koning's
>> implementation effort ***bows to Paul***
>>
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> DECnet Phase IV in Python ??? That's just unnatural. ;-)
> 
> On a more serious note, I wonder why John was looking at the DECnet
> Phase IV code. I wonder if something in there found a problem in the
> new compilers ?

No, this was to fix an IA64-only problem related to MOP loading.

This problem does not exist on Alpha, nor does it exist if LANCP is used
to manage MOP clients.

I was picking at this on-and-off for about a year.

Solution was to delete a line of code.

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                  -- Rob