[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-07-25 02:11:37 +0000, John Reagan said:

> I hear ya.  It is a mess with many of the older APIs being very 32-bit 
> centric.  The compilers are still 32-bit centric.  Languages that 
> accept argument by descriptor?  (like Fortran CHARACTER*N, Pascal's 
> conformant arrays, etc.) are all 32-bit descriptors only.  Only a few 
> system services will accept 32 or 64-bit descriptors.  There wasn't 
> enough push on the compiler teams.  Now, I want to do it, but it is 
> finding the resources.

The sorry state of 64-bit "support" on OpenVMS is vexing, but then I'm 
in a polite mood today.
VEX/VMS 🤬 Anybody want a t-shirt? 😈 But I digress.
This particularly after experiencing a 64-bit app migration as an app 
developer on another platform.
Which had its gnarly bits, absolutely. Replacing 32-bit dependencies 
and deprecated frameworks, etc.
The frameworks already available on that other platform made 
substantial parts of that migration far easier, though.
Frameworks and techniques that aren't (yet?) supported on OpenVMS, alas.

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