[Info-vax] Attn VSI employees: Viable full system Itanium emulator for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/20/2022 1:44 PM, Hans Bachner wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb am 20.02.2022 um 02:10:
>> On 2/19/2022 1:05 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>> On Friday, February 18, 2022 at 10:36:48 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 2/18/22 09:12, John Dallman wrote:
>>>>> In article <69d0b812-0d53-42b6... at googlegroups.com>,
>>>>> xyzz... at gmail.com (John Reagan) wrote:
>>>>>> On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 2:28:46 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon
>>>>>>> I can't understand the interest in HP-UX at all. It's just
>>>>>>> another proprietary Unix and not really one of the better ones.
>>>>>> Big endian
>>>>>
>>>>> What makes big-endian attractive to end-user organisations?
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>> What real difference does endianess make to anyone today?
>>>>
>>> <Fortran COMMON blocks enters the chat>
>>>
>>> Nobody has used a COMMON block in one place with an integer and in 
>>> another with bytes?  Or a C union or a Pascal variant record?
>>
>> I would use EQUIVALENCE and not COMMON for that, but it could be done
>> with COMMON.
> 
> EQUIVALENCE is usually used when you need access to both definitions 
> within the same program unit. (Named) COMMON can be used to use 
> different definitions for the same memory area in different program units.

Yes.

But I still think for Fortran the EQUIVALENCE is the most
equivalent (!) to C union and Pascal variant record.

Arne