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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/12/2020 5:31 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

So that C code is some non-existing C code that you used
to show:

ptr:    .blkl   1
         movl    source_address, ptr

?

I guess I get confused when people write Macro-32 in C.

Arne