[Info-vax] VMS process communication

JOUKJ joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl
Mon Mar 13 06:22:29 EDT 2023


Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/31/2022 9:06 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 10/31/2022 9:18 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> Have you considered adding articles about 64-bit memory access 
>>> programming
>>> on VMS and its limits ? Or is everyone already (painfully :-)) aware of
>>> the issues involved here ?
>>
>> I have not considered that.
>>
>> Long opinionated writing about what DEC decided 30 years ago,
>> why, consequences of that and, discussions about whether DEC
>> made the right decision and discussions about what VSI should do
>> now are out of scope for the series.
>>
>> And from the more practical perspective I don't think there
>> is enough to write about. One page with background,
>> one page with all the stuff one can do in C and one
>> page about the fun of Java calling C via JNI. That
>> must be about it.
> 
> I decided to do it anyway.
> 
> And it turned out to be more than 3 pages to write.
> 
> Pre-release for comments:
> 
> https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/articles/vms64.html
> 
> Arne
> 
> 
> 
I maintain a web-page on 64-bit pointers when using VSI-Fortran. The 
site contains many problems you can encounter and what the work-arounds are.

      Jouk



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