[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

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On 9/28/21 2:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
On IA64 and x86, there is no record I/O in the linker or the image
activator. If you can get the ELF bits right for VMS, you can created
the files anywhere. On your phone or fridge, if you want.