[Info-vax] VMS internals design, was: Re: BASIC and AST routines

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/29/2021 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-26, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 11/26/2021 2:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> And the reason I thought it _must_ be Macro-32 related was because the
>>> real reason was so crazy it never even occurred to me. :-)
>>
>> So anything you don't know why is by default a Macro-32 problems??
>>
> 
> No. Read my detailed reply to Dan.
> 
> In my eyes, there must have been a reason for those registers being
> present and only Macro-32 code could have made any use of them if
> they were going to be used by the AST routine itself.

So do something only possible in Macro-32 and not possible in C?

And that is still relevant for "application programming"?

Arne