[Info-vax] field test - what can done for the newcomers?

[calliet gérard]

Le 06/08/2021 à 21:47, John Reagan a écrit :
> On Friday, August 6, 2021 at 11:27:02 AM UTC-4, calliet gérard wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm just beginning to really use the field test, and the associated
>> itanium cross-compilation tools.
>>
>> Very impressive the more than 900 files there. But there is no
>> documentation, just to know for example what for are some objects.
>>
>> I am ashamed to say my VMS culture is not sufficient to guess everything.
>>
>> I don't want to disturb VSI with beginners questions. Is there somewhere
>> some docs, advice, feedbacks?
>>
>> Anticipated thanks,
>>
>> Gérard Calliet
>>
>> -- 
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> The cross-tools does come with an installation guide and release notes for the compilers.
> 
> There is a setup command file to define a bunch of logical names so the cross-compilers will use the x86 headers.
> 
> All of those object files and object libraries are for the cross-linker to link against.
> 
> I will admit that we're not completely consistent with how each tool is accessed.  For example, C has its own DCL verb, XCC.  BLISS uses syntax qualifiers like /X32 and /X64.  Pascal, COBOL, Fortran, Linker, MESSAGE, CDU reuse the standard DCL verb and just point logicals at the cross-tool (which hides the Itanium version from you).  The librarian and analyze can actually do both Itanium and x86 with the images on the cross-tools kit.
> 
Something are a little bit esoteric, like the sda*x86_on_ia64.exe, the 
difference between BLISS and XBLISS.

Just to do crash analysis? Crashed on x86, analyzed on Itanium? Or 
something else?

Like an x86 emulator on itanium? (joke)