[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Dave Froble]

On 7/24/2023 1:12 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-07-24, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 7/24/2023 8:33 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> VSI are having to expend serious engineering effort on trying to
>>> duplicate the behaviour of an assembly language (with all its built-in
>>> idioms) on a completely different architecture.
>>>
>>> This is simply a non-issue on operating systems where the lowest
>>> supported language is C instead of assembly language. The stuff John
>>> is having to deal with is just an implementation detail in the backend
>>> code generator on Linux and elsewhere that is hidden from the source code.
>>>
>>> In Macro-32 however, it's directly visible in the source code and you have
>>> to go to great efforts to duplicate that behaviour on other architectures.
>>>
>>> On Linux, and other operating systems written in C or above, that's an
>>> issue you simply don't have to worry about.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, how about this perspective?
>>
>> If x86 VMS does not support existing VMS applications, then what's the point of
>> x86 VMS?  So, yeah, some tough work, but, it supports the customers.
>>
>> Easy for Simon to tell users to re-write their applications.  It's not his time
>> and money.
>>
>
> We are not talking about people rewriting their applications.
>
> We are talking about structural and design issues within VMS that is
> making this porting process a lot more involved than it should be.
>
> Simon.
>

You have been down on Macro-32, but, there are customers that will be very happy 
there is a Macro-32 compiler on x86 VMS.  It's not just for the OS.

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