[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/29/2021 5:10 AM, hb wrote:
> 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.
 >
> 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.

So any RFM will work.

Never a problem for EXE anyway as FTP in binary created FIX 512 files.

Arne