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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 15:49:28 -0400
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On 8/14/2024 2:57 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
   
> compile/POINTER_SIZE=32, LINK/SEG=CODE=P0 etc. can all help get stuff
> working.
> 
> But it is not the right long term solution.
  
For C++, the default pointer size should have remained 32.
It was a mistake to change the default from what it was on Alpha and IA64.

There is a lot of VMS-developed C++ code that expects a pointer size of 32,
so in the case I cited, that compilation qualifer will remain forever, because
the code will not change.

-- 
		-- Rob