[Info-vax] LLVM, volatile and async VMS I/O and system calls

[chris]

On 10/02/21 21:28, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-02, Dave Froble<davef at tsoft-inc.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Ok, poll time.  Is there anyone else that took as long as Simon to
>> realize he was being trolled?
>>
>> :-)
>>
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> :-)
>
> In Simon's defence, he would like to point out that he strongly
> suspected that a good couple of rounds ago, and if Chris was not
> a hardware type, he would have probably called it as a troll at
> that point.
>

No, really trolling, just saw your original post as arm waving
in respect of some mysterious process, as yet undiscovered, that
could cause havoc to vms builds. As I said upthread, vms has
been rewritten twice already, so sure such issues would have been
noticed and dealt with.

 >
> Unfortunately, some hardware types have an over-inflated opinion
> of their level of knowledge of software issues, so it was quite
> possible Chris really didn't understand the points being made.
 >

Yes, and some people can be arrogant and dismissive. Present
company excluded, of course :-).

>
> My problem is that I always seem to want to help educate people... :-)

That's good, but a clear explanation of the detail always helps :-)...

Chris

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> Simon.
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