[Info-vax] Technical issues with VMS BASIC port to x86-64 ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/21/2024 8:52 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:55:41 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Yes - it seems to be an extension to the standard. But VMS Fortran hast
>> lots of extensions to the standard.
> 
> And this particular “extension” does not work consistently from one
> architecture to another. Big surprise?

The point is that it has to.

The VMS users are expecting VMS to be VMS.

They expect every feature present on VMS VAX 40 years ago
to work today on VMS x86-64 exactly as they did back then.

Arne