Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/16/24 3:38 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?

Yes, but very little of it is written in C++.  Mark Berryman has been
wrestling with mariadb and xpdf as reported on the VSI forum, but most
of what has been ported before is just C, not C++.
I suspect most of the C++ on VMS has been customer code.