[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <n7qpc59nt71k5l26uic8khj8q84h07cdno at 4ax.com>, jls <notvalid at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> How it worked before the memory mapping was rearranged must have been
> a complete "happy accident".  The bug was in that code from day 1 but
> had somehow never surfaced before it was recompiled to take advantage
> of improvements in a new version of the Fortran compiler.

   Prior to adding pointers to Fortran, it was always possible to catch
   this sort of thing by adding checks at compile time (at least on good
   compilers).  Adding pointers may have made this difficult at times,
   but I haven't seen any big pointer users writing Fortran.