[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[hb]

On 7/30/20 2:36 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> The linker simply won't put static data in a memory region that needs a 64-bit pointer to access it.  Of course, you are welcome to create-and-map-section-64 into 64-bit space and access it as you see fit. 

I think John wanted to say that the linker can't move static data from
32 to 64 bit address space - as it can with code, as long as the PSECT
is PIC. However, static data can have the ALLOC_64BIT attribute. The
linker puts static data according to the absence or presence of that
attribute into 32 or 64 bit address space. I only saw this attribute set
by FORTRAN - I don't know but doubt that other compilers support it. And
no, the linker does not accept an option to set that PSECT attribute.