[Info-vax] Native compilers

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-02-22 16:06, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <sv2i58$a5h$1 at news.misty.com>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> {...snip..}
>> Uh? What? Either I am confused, or you are.
>> ..INCLUDE /whatever/
>> should work just fine. It's not that Macro-32 don't have an include file
>> system. It's just that it's not the only thing it has. It *also* have
>> libraries, which is something Unix compilers usually lack when we talk
>> about source side.
> 
> There is no .INCLUDE directive in Macro-32!  It is not referenced in the
> VAX Macro LRM either.  Adding a ".INCLUDE /whatever/" elicits the error:
> 
> 	.INCLUDE	/whatever/
> ^
> %AMAC-E-UNRECSTMT, unrecognized statement
> at line number 173 in file SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]X.MAR;3
> 
> 
>> Or at least this is what I *know* is true in Macro-11, and while it's
>> been quite a while since I played with Macro-32, I'm fairly certain it's
>> the same there.
> 
> 'Tis not!

Ok. This time I'm really surprised. Makes one wonder why this was 
removed in Macro-32, which certainly otherwise feels like a spiritual 
successor to Macro-11.

And I certainly believed I had used it in the dim past when I played 
more on VAXen. Brains develop bit rot...

   Johnny