Sujet : Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 09. Apr 2025, 22:10:10
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:01:02 -0400, John Reagan wrote:
I just looked at the largest MAR file in DCL. It has 10,000 lines but
many are comments and many are macro definitions. Not actual VAX
instructions.
I would count macro definition bodies in full, and each macro expansion as
one line. After all, macros are code written once and used multiple times,
just like function calls as far as source code is concerned.