[Info-vax] 64-bit (was Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

[John Dallman]

In article <unkd47$25cg2$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
wrote:

> I suspect that all direct calls to LIB$ and SYS$ no matter if it is
> Macro-32 or Fortran or C would have to be manually edited to use
> new 64 bit capable version, but that the various language RTL
> could switch to 64 bit capable versions transparently.

With a sufficiently regular naming scheme, a compiler could make
substitutions, but I don't know if the current scheme will cope. 

John