[Info-vax] A portable VMS, was: Re: OS Ancestry

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-18, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> Another problem with going only 64 bit pointers in Alpha
> would have been VEST. When the tool saw a MOVL should it guess
> on whether it was moving data or moving an address?
>

In a portable VMS, that problem probably would not exist and if
it was required for some reason, it would be handled in the same
way as however the Macro-32 compiler works in that case on Alpha.

Simon.

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