[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Craig A. Berry]

On 7/31/20 12:31 PM, David Jones wrote:
> On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 10:55:48 AM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
>> It's possible getopt and the exec functions would have to be done
>> together because you'd be changing argv, and this in turn may have some
>> incestuous relationship with DCL foreign command parsing or something.
> 
> So that's why when you specify /pointer_size can also specify whether argv
> is 32 or 64 bit.
> 

That's part of the equation, certainly.  But if you call execv from a
program compiled with /POINTER_SIZE=64=ARGV, how do you hand off an
array of 64-bit pointers in argv to a program that may expect an array
of 32-bit pointers or may expect an array of 64-bit pointers?