[Info-vax] How much of VMS is still in MACRO-32?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/1/2021 9:34 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 6/1/21 12:33 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2021-06-01 15:27:34 +0000, Marc Van Dyck said:
>>> Don't you do that with Source Code Analyzer, for languages that 
>>> support it ?
> 
>> I use DECset SCA and PCA only  rarely, as few sites have licenses for
>> that. Which means using symbol tables and maps, and the debugger,
>> and  preferably refactoring where permitted.
> 
> And as far as I remember PCA doesn't work on shareable images, which
> means on any kind of application with a semi-modern architecture, you
> either do without

Would it ignore the time spent in the shareable image or would it just
count it as being spent in the calling code?

The latter may be good enough for many purposes.

>                   or you mangle your build procedures to make a static
> version, which in turn makes the results of any performance analysis
> somewhat suspect for drawing conclusions about the real-world application.

It would be a hassle. And if it is external code then one may not even
be able to do it.

But why do you expect a big difference in result due to static
linking?

Arne