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From: "Robert A. Brooks" <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: New VSI post on Youtube
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:45:17 -0400
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On 8/14/2024 2:33 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/14/2024 2:07 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
  
>> Some of the changes are pretty mechanical (casting or simple refactoring); some are not.
>>
>> Don't ask me to describe the "some are not" part, because I'm getting help to deal wit
>> those.
> 
> Being more strict is just one thing.
> 
> I also believe it is missing some of the VMS specific extensions.
> 
> And it has different size of long and pointers. Causing problems
> for two cases:
> * code that make implicit assumptions that those are 32 bit
  
/POINTER_SIZE = 32 is your friend.  In my case, all the pointers
were 32 bits long, so that was an easy thing to add to the build.

This is for the OMNI and OSAP products for industrial control.

-- 
		-- Rob