[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[John Reagan]

On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 12:12:49 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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> Again, go write a 64-bit app on OpenVMS.
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I'm still not sure what you mean....

The Itanium linker is 1/2 BLISS-64 and 1/2 C.  For BLISS, it is pure BLISS-64 and doesn't use any of those crutches like /ASSUME=SIGNED_LONG.  For C, it is built with /POINTER=LONG.  The only "fall back to 32-bit" is using SYS$FILESCAN (and they really didn't need to) and some FAB/RAB/NAM/XAB pointers (we've already admitted that RMS only partially 64-bit tolerant).