[Info-vax] $sndopr() and dsc64$descriptor

[Jim]

On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 11:02:27 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-03-11 15:06:30 +0000, Jim said: 
> 
> > Anyone know if $sndopr should accept a 64 bit descriptor describing its 
> > msgbuf argument? Or is $sndopr 32 bit only? 
> > 
> > Environment is VMS V8.4.-1H1; C program compiled with /pointer_size=64...
> Doubtful, and you've likely already proven that. 
> 

I expect so... unless I'm missing something. Couldn't find doc that
stated support one way or other so was just hoping that perhaps
my failure was my own and not absence of support. Most of the
systems services and RTL routines that I've had need to use in a
64 bit environment were so aware... unfortunately seems this one isn't.

Thanks for responding.

> Best assume everything that not explicitly marked as 64-bit as 32-bit. 
> 
> In this part of the tell, I'd be surprised if OPCOM and inosculate 
> parts knew from 64-bit wads of ASCII. 
> 
> It'd be nice to see a 64-bit compatible indication throughout the doc, 
> but then I'd rather see any effort expended here used for deprecating 
> 32-bit entirely. 
> 
> Discussions of language-specific and UTF-8 encoding left for another time. 
> 
> 
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