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Article #351Re: Shared images, some differences on ALPHA
From: George J. Carrette
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 14:37
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 14:37
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In article <1992Oct8.151434.719@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes: > That's odd -- I could'a sworn that globalREF's would become extern's. To > actually define the space (equivalent of globaldef), you use an unadorned > declaration (no 'extern') outside all procedure bodies. That's how I was told > to do it by one of the DEC Alpha folks in Atlanta... It could be that the VMS ALPHA compilers have some VAX-C compatibility in them, such that (sort of) #define globaldef #define globalref extern but it could be that whoever was hacking OSF-MOTIF decided to RUB IT IN that there was something funny about VMS on the VAX, or perhaps an early version of the VMS ALPHA C compiler didn't have those two trivial items. -gjc
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals Subject: Re: Shared images, some differences on ALPHA Message-ID: <3068@mitech.com> Date: 9 Oct 92 14:37:13 GMT References: <3026@mitech.com> <1992Oct8.151434.719@cmkrnl.com> Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA Lines: 17