[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Fri Jul 31 18:24:20 EDT 2020


On 2020-07-31 00:59:01 +0000, John Reagan said:

> You can put code in P2 on Itanium from day-1.  You don't have to 
> recompile or anything.  (Itanium C++ needs to be compiled with 
> /POINTER=64).
> ...
> where an address region can be specified with keywords P0 and P2.

Why is this even a thing? Ah, nevermind, complexity is the goal.
Should have been "park it all in P2 unless somebody really needs P0."


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