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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/22/20 12:47 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> 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.
> 

Any particular line of code?  Or just pick one at random.  :-)

bill