[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-28, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/28/2020 8:31 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> Only on VMS. This is (mostly) not a significant problem on other
>> operating systems because the vast majority of the work is done for
>> you by the compiler and linker in those environments after you tell
>> the compiler whether you want your code to run with 32-bit or 64-bit
>> addresses and other features.
>
> ????
>
> On what other platform is it common to pass 64 bit addresses
> as 32 bit bit values with implicit values for the remaining bits?
>

As you should well know, you simply don't have to worry about this
in those environments. My answer above should have been enough for
you to understand the point I was making.

You tell the compiler whether you want a 32-bit or 64-bit executable
and it, the linker, and OS support libraries takes care of most of
the work for you (if not all the work).

I wish it was that simple on VMS.

Simon.

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