Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/16/2024 4:38 PM, John Dallman wrote:

In article <v9j1o8$fql6$3@dont-email.me>, FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com
(Robert A. Brooks) wrote:

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.

 Presumably, most of the open source ported to VMS uses 32-bit pointers?

My guess would be that most C++ open source comes from the Linux
world and is mostly tested with 64 bit pointers.
Arne