[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/27/2021 10:26 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 2:42:53 PM UTC+13, Dave Froble
> wrote:
>> Well, trying to be fair, what difference does it make, as to which
>> CPU and OS is used to generate the OBJ and EXE files? It's all just
>> ones and zeros, right?
> 
> I can think of one obvious problem with VMS, and that is how you
> represent the RMS attributes that are pretty much a mandatory part of
> the .OBJ format, if not .EXE, on other platforms? There’s no
> equivalent to such metadata on *nix systems, for example.

In this case it will be from VMS Itanium to VMS x86-64, so RMS
attributes should be fine.

Arne