[Info-vax] How much of VMS is still in MACRO-32?
John Dallman
jgd at cix.co.uk
Sun May 30 16:03:00 EDT 2021
In article <s90gqj$1b30$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:
> Whatever changes necessary to support 64 bit was done 30 years ago
> for Alpha.
For the current 64-bit APIs, sure, but there are APIs that only take
32-bit addresses. Once I began to get to grips with the MACRO-32
compilers, it became plausible that one reason why there aren't 64-bit
versions of all APIs is that the interfaces are implemented in MACRO-32.
John
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