[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-12, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> And where do you see:
>
> >>>>     uint32 ptr;
> >>>>     ptr = (uint32) source_address;    /* YUCK YUCK YUCK ! :-) */
>

That's how they are handled in Macro-32 and how they are effectively
handled by the rest of VMS.

That's why you can't, for example, add /mode=64_bit to your compiler
command to automatically make your RMS using source code (and other
VMS APIs) suddenly start working with purely 64-bit addresses and
with very little, if any, source code changes required to make that
happen.

Simon.

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