From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/19
Date: 1999-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999May18.202000.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871zge2h7q.fsf@bglbv.my-dejanews.com
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In article <871zge2h7q.fsf@bglbv.my-dejanews.com>, <bglbv@my-dejanews.com> writes:
> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
>> I have a subscription to the VMS source listings, and Charlie is
>> correct, modulo some VAX-Alpha skew. I am talking about actual
>> use for code that ships in the operating system product, not whatever
>> DEC may use internally for testing the compiler.
>
> Well, source listings are of course the kind of authoritative
> references I was missing. Thank you. So you are saying that there
> is no trace of Ada code in VMS sources prior to release 6.2? For
> completeness' sake, how far back did you look?
Well, I've been reading the listings since V1.5 (well before Ada existed)
at client sites. Could someone have slipped in some isolated Ada I did
not find, yes, but it would be unlikely. The major part that is in Ada
now was created from scratch for V6.2 or so, with no predecessor in any
language.
> who cares? It used to be possible to tell apart Fortran and Pascal
> code on a VAX by noticing that Fortran used CALLG and Pascal CALLS
> instructions. It would be na�ve to expect compilers for different
> languages to generate totally indistinguishable object codes (as
> opposed to equally efficient ones) for equivalent source programs.
VAX Pascal and VAX Fortran are sort of unique because they have their
own code generator. Most VAX compilers from DEC use VCG.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-10 0:00 A question for my personal knowledge Siamak Kaveh
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Werner Pachler
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Sam
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-05-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike Yoder
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Steve
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Chris
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-18 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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