[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/18/2022 8:44 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 7:20:00 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/18/2022 2:16 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-07-16, Arne Vajhøj <ar... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> VMS Fortran and VMS C++ does not support newer standards - but those
>>>> newer standards are used on other platforms.
>>>
>>> Devil's Advocate time: Does adding new standards to a language sometimes
>>> make it so complex that it's better to start over with a new language
>>> that covers the same usage cases ?
>> I think so.
>>
>> But probably not in the case of Fortran 95 -> 2003 and
>> C++ 98 -> 11.
>>
>> (Fortran 77 -> 90 could have been a case)
>>>> VMS Pascal and VMS Basic are very much VMS specific languages, but
>>>> no dramatic changes the last 25 years.
>>>>
>>>> VMS C is the only "hot topic" due to the C99 features phase in,
>>>> the 32 bit vs 64 bit pointers issue etc..
>>>
>>> 32-bit versus 64-bit pointers on VMS are not just a C issue. :-)
>> No.
>>
>> But there are not that many languages that support both.
>>
>> And I do not remember ever seeing a question about the
>> different pointer sizes in Fortran.
>>
>> :-)

> Fortran does have support for 64-bit pointers are variables but it
> doesn't have 64-bit pointers as fields in a structure.  That can get
> in the way.  I don't think %DESCR or %STDESCR know anything.  I'm not
> sure about %LOC with P2 space common blocks. >
> Pascal has good support for 64-bit pointers with the [QUAD] attribute
> but it doesn't know how to create 64-bit descriptors in cases where
> it should when 64-bit pointers are used.  It has IADDRESS and
> IADDRESS64. >
> COBOL does have a POINTER64 datatype so you can move them around.
> Can't really deference them. >
> And nothing in BASIC.  "by descr" only needs to make 32-bit descriptors

So some support.

But I do still not remember ever seeing a question for
those languages.

While we have seen several C questions.

Either pure C or C being called via JNI where pointer
changed from 32 to 64 bit in later Java versions.

Arne