Re: VMS x86-64 database server

On 7/8/2025 7:40 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 18:14:32 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 7/8/2025 5:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Note that, on *nix systems, shareable libraries can be specified
directly on the command line, without having to go through options
files. Why does the VMS linker need options files for this common case?

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/SHARE in command line means producing a shareable image.
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/SHARE in option file means linking with a shareable image.
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Different meaning based on context.

 Given that the VMS DCL syntax was specifically designed to allow a
distinction between per-file qualifiers and global qualifiers, this seems
like a strange limitation, don’t you think?

Not really.
First I don't think a verb qualifier and a per-file qualifier with same
name will work well.
Second even if it did work, then I think it would be confusing
to have the qualifier in a command line with two different
meanings.
Arne