[Info-vax] Python for OpenVMS VAX

[Chris Allen]

On Oct 16, 2:45 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> VMS to Alpha is generally not a difficult port.  About the only
> potential problem that I can recall is a program that has a dependency
> on the size of a "page" of memory.  I don't recall the details but VAX
> pages are 512 bytes and Alpha pages are bigger; I don't recall how
> *much* bigger.  Alright, one more potential problem!  If you are doing
> bit twiddling in floating point variables, the format differs between
> VAX and Alpha.
>
> Most programs are compile, link, and go.

Thanks for your insight.  It's comforting to hear that most likely
it'll compile without problems on an Alpha.  I'm going to look into
getting a machine for test.