[Info-vax] Listeners in VMS Basic, was: Re: Integrity iLO Configuration?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-06-25, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The compiler and RTL LOVE floating point.  Printing an integer involves converting it to a floating point, converting that to a string, and printing everything to the left of the decimal point.  And even with the default being IEEE, we found that Itanium BASIC still wants to use VAX floating.  
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Was DEC Basic by any chance written by a salesperson looking to sell
more powerful (and hence more expensive) computers ? :-)

> And we found some other bugs in the RTL (like one routine passing the address of short to another routine that wrote a longword value).
>

Ooh, interesting... :-)

On a more serious note however, have you made sure that routine isn't
used in any privileged parts of VMS ?

Simon.

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