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233 notes across 36 conferences

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turris::dec_fortran_alpha46DEC Fortran on ALPHA
vaxaxp::notes$archive:alphanotes_v130Alpha Support conference
smurf::alpha_osf20This conferernce has moved to TURRIS::DIGITAL_UNIX
turris::pascal19DEC Pascal Notes
turris::decc15DECC
turris::fortran-vax13VAX FORTRAN Development Notes
turris::bliss11Notes About BLISS
turris::alpha_callstd8ALPHA Calling Standard
turris::evax_bliss8BLISS compilers for Alpha AXP -- ** DIGITAL CONFIDENTIAL **
turris::evax_bliss8BLISS compilers for Alpha AXP -- ** DIGITAL CONFIDENTIAL **
turris::mips_bliss7MIPS BLISS Conference
turris::pli5PL/I Notes
noted::dup_old_ultrix5Volume 3, Take a RISC with ULTRIX...
turris::decc_alpha5DEC C ALPHA CONFERENCE
turris::languages3Languages
isvhub::alpha_vms3Porting to Alpha AXP
smurf::notes$archive:ultrix_v22It's OK to say the U... word, Volume #2
turris::vaxc2VAX C Notes
clt::dec_pascal_bugs2DEC Pascal Bug Reports
clt::rtl2OpenVMS Run-Time Libraries
rusure::math2Mathematics at DEC
turris::sdl2SDL Notes
turris::alpha_l2Alpha_L
7.286::maconline1Macintosh Archives Conference online - MAConline
decwet::physics1Physics
kaosws::mipsco1Digital's MIPS processors, etc.-DECstation,DECsystem 3100 et al
mvblab::sable1SABLE SYSTEM PUBLIC DISCUSSION
noted::hackers1** Hackers **
ricks::dechips1Hudson VLSI
tallis::vax1VAX Architecture
turris::dec_fortran1DEC_FORTRAN
turris::porting_to_ultrix1Porting Software to Ultrix
7.286::dcu1DCU
ziglar::maple1MAPLE
smurf::alpha_osf_performance1ALPHA OSF Performance
turris::alpha_bliss_bugs1ALPHA_BLISS_BUGS -- *DIGITAL CONFIDENTIAL*

Conference 7.286::maconline (Macintosh Archives Conference online - MAConline)

1 posts
TOPIC 841.0 Medical software, any info ?
841.3Mon Mar 26 1990 12:00 5 lines

Conference smurf::notes$archive:ultrix_v2 (It's OK to say the U... word, Volume #2)

2 posts
TOPIC 3469.0 vcc v. cc--relationship?
3469.8Wed Jan 17 1990 21:14 There is no lk on RISC 6 lines
3469.12Thu Jan 18 1990 09:48 MIPS BLISS is in field test 5 lines

Conference turris::dec_fortran_alpha (DEC Fortran on ALPHA)

46 posts
TOPIC 172.0 Need to split FORTRAN source into separate files -- one per subroutine/function
172.9Wed Apr 21 1993 10:29 Don't contaiminate the FORTRAN kit 3 lines
TOPIC 378.0 integer_divide_by_0 cond.handling
378.2Fri Oct 23 1992 09:20 Probably a DECC RTL problem 5 lines
TOPIC 381.0 Quoted Literal restriction permanent??
381.2Mon Oct 26 1992 09:12 Only a problem on VMS, not OSF 14 lines
TOPIC 408.0 DOUBLE PRECISION AND FLOAT=D
408.6Thu Nov 05 1992 09:04 "Feature" (user error) difference between VAX and Alpha FORTRAN 23 lines
TOPIC 448.0 H-float, when ?
448.3Wed Nov 25 1992 11:15 Never say never! 11 lines
TOPIC 604.0 /SEPARATE eqviv in DFAO
604.2Mon Feb 08 1993 14:22 Adding -separate to DFAO would be corrupting Unix with a VMS feature 9 lines
TOPIC 644.0 Worked on VAX Fortran, DEC Fortran complains...
644.5Tue Mar 09 1993 08:06 Warnings don't require recoding 9 lines
TOPIC 650.0 Run Time Library Performance?
650.7Wed Feb 24 1993 08:48 Could be a cache problem and not a code problem 42 lines
TOPIC 661.0 DFA: unformatted sequential file format?
661.2Mon Feb 22 1993 19:59 Which Alpha OS?? 6 lines
661.4Tue Feb 23 1993 08:34 Lots of RECORDTYPEs--take your pick 14 lines
TOPIC 703.0 HPARITH Problem
703.12Mon Mar 15 1993 08:37 VAX cleans up "dirty zeros" and AXP does not 28 lines
TOPIC 716.0 can EXP be 'inlined'?
716.3Wed Mar 17 1993 15:33 Fast EXP vs. Slow EXP can make a difference 3 lines
716.5Thu Mar 18 1993 08:49 9 lines
TOPIC 732.0 immunity from %FOR-F-FORVARMIS wanted
732.6Wed Mar 24 1993 13:46 More history 12 lines
TOPIC 771.0 Problems with underflow and the open call
771.10Wed Apr 07 1993 23:02 AXP does not have hardware D-float 6 lines
TOPIC 824.0 F-format question
824.2Tue Apr 27 1993 10:47 IEEE FP Standard requires 17 digits 11 lines
824.7Fri Apr 30 1993 10:55 Most users do not have to use the some code path 5 lines
TOPIC 833.0 Suggestions for improvements to DEC Fortran for OSF/1 AXP
833.4Fri Apr 30 1993 11:19 Different ld's have different options 8 lines
TOPIC 869.0 This code is slower than DS5000 !!
869.1Thu May 13 1993 08:58 -assume noaccuracy_sensitive 5 lines
TOPIC 871.0 Problem when subroutines in different files
871.2Sun May 16 1993 22:00 The "de facto" standard is not the "de jure" one 33 lines
TOPIC 945.0 $EXIT does not exit in FORTRAN 5.0-3 ?
945.4Tue Jun 22 1993 17:20 System service call SYS$EXIT counts its arguments 21 lines
TOPIC 949.0 I*4 versus I*8 performance
949.1Tue Jun 29 1993 02:19 Integer multiply can be slow 25 lines
TOPIC 1004.0 Urgent request about IEEE standard 754-1985
1004.5Wed Jul 28 1993 18:58 No handler needed for IEEE-754 specified results 10 lines
TOPIC 1012.0 Alignment & Performance
1012.6Tue Aug 03 1993 22:00 32-bit RISCs have little trouble 9 lines
TOPIC 1056.0 Infinit loop ?
1056.3Wed Sep 01 1993 19:23 Extended Range DO 3 lines
TOPIC 1138.0 String passing, revisited
1138.3Tue Oct 19 1993 21:22 Others???? 23 lines
TOPIC 1143.0 What is GETRUSAGE doing here???????
1143.13Mon Oct 25 1993 22:00 NaN comparison should produce run-time error not a result!! 14 lines
TOPIC 1159.0 "dirty zero" (denorms) revisited
1159.4Wed Oct 27 1993 19:28 Get rid of denormals at input time 20 lines
TOPIC 1233.0 DEC Fortran T3.4-426 generate identical code for -O4 and -O5
1233.5Tue Nov 30 1993 14:01 Pipelining (in the general case) is difficult 39 lines
1233.7Tue Nov 30 1993 20:32 Do a better design or follow the defacto standard?? 15 lines
1233.11Mon Dec 20 1993 14:25 Software Pipelining is for vectors only 20 lines
TOPIC 1258.0 Help needed to explain why DEC Fortran is now so much faster...
1258.1Mon Dec 13 1993 15:53 Complicated but there's nothing magic 57 lines
TOPIC 1282.0 A serious FLAW reported
1282.4Thu Dec 30 1993 16:43 Use /CHECK=UNDERFLOW 6 lines
TOPIC 1342.0 Underflows treated differently between fpe0 and fpe1?
1342.5Sun Feb 06 1994 18:48 What made the customer notice the underflow difference?? 7 lines
1342.8Tue Feb 08 1994 18:18 Count underflows with -check underflow 5 lines
1342.11Wed Feb 09 1994 15:58 Compare TRAPB stalls versus underflow software completion 37 lines
TOPIC 1348.0 POINTER to common block?
1348.3Tue Feb 08 1994 18:15 If CRAY does it can it be bad? 2 lines
TOPIC 1379.0 Non-blanks returned in a READ statement
1379.14Fri Mar 18 1994 13:19 4 lines
TOPIC 1423.0 Call setjmp from DEC Fortran?
1423.3Thu Mar 10 1994 18:29 setjmp not available in DEC Fortran 6 lines
1423.4Fri Mar 11 1994 18:52 Internet reply on using setjmp in Fortran 48 lines
TOPIC 1544.0 problem with -fpe0 for floating-point underflow
1544.35Mon May 23 1994 11:59 Bug in IEEE constant folding will be fixed 13 lines
TOPIC 1568.0 /ALIGN & listing don't correlate
1568.4Fri May 20 1994 11:16 Asynchronous exceptions can ocurr in other subroutines 14 lines
TOPIC 1579.0 NINT acts differently to other Unixes
1579.3Wed Jun 01 1994 11:52 A signal handler could help this problem 40 lines
TOPIC 1658.0 Size of PARAMETER defined constant?
1658.5Wed Jul 13 1994 15:54 Old parameter syntax conflicts with Fortran-90 standard 12 lines
TOPIC 1720.0 How to fix COMMON alignements
1720.4Mon Aug 29 1994 13:54 Starting arrays on cache-line boundary can be important 11 lines
TOPIC 1734.0 Question regarding handling of denorms
1734.4Fri Aug 26 1994 17:32 51 lines

Conference turris::fortran-vax (VAX FORTRAN Development Notes)

13 posts
TOPIC 1093.0 VAX FORTRAN to ULTRIX (or FORTRAN to C) ??
1093.2Thu Jan 25 1990 08:25 14 lines
1093.4Mon Feb 05 1990 08:56 Need Customer Compatibility Feedback 27 lines
TOPIC 1099.0 Common variable initilization.
1099.1Fri Feb 02 1990 08:04 VAX FORTRAN extensions for COMMON initialization 22 lines
TOPIC 1126.0 Argument list not generated for CALL
1126.4Mon Mar 05 1990 08:12 Looks like zeroing a runaway pointer 6 lines
TOPIC 1135.0 Why FORTRAN does not like embedded <esc> characters?
1135.7Fri Mar 16 1990 09:32 Most Unix f77 compilers do NOT accept \033 7 lines
TOPIC 1150.0 FORMAT statement question
1150.2Wed Mar 28 1990 09:24 VAX A format does right justification 5 lines
TOPIC 2043.0 E-CONSIZEXC and E-EXCCHATRU act like warnings.
2043.2Wed Nov 04 1992 16:28 But status in EOM record is different 5 lines
TOPIC 2050.0 Wrong print cc using USEROPEN
2050.4Fri Nov 20 1992 22:32 Must use VOLATILE with %LOC 11 lines
TOPIC 2067.0 Divide by zero?
2067.5Fri Dec 18 1992 10:26 IEEE machines rarely trap on divide by zero 22 lines
2067.17Mon Feb 08 1993 16:22 IEEE floating point is not high performance floating point 19 lines
TOPIC 2113.0 Assign character standard?
2113.3Tue Feb 23 1993 12:05 The statement is STANDARD if it is never executed 19 lines
TOPIC 2189.0 Optimisation costing more than its worth.
2189.1Thu May 06 1993 10:34 Send the development group a copy 7 lines
TOPIC 2277.0 Non-bracketed more-than-2-sided boolean expressions are ok?
2277.5Sat Aug 28 1993 15:17 "Equivalence" does not imply "Equality" 6 lines

Conference turris::pascal (DEC Pascal Notes)

19 posts
TOPIC 1524.0 nested comments in V4.0 ??
1524.1Tue Feb 13 1990 10:05 Pascal standard outlaws comment nesting 16 lines
1524.21Fri Feb 16 1990 12:13 When does PASS=FAIL ? 22 lines
TOPIC 1525.0 Sharing sequential file <==> end of file
1525.8Fri Feb 16 1990 11:42 READ(f,f^) is weird but legal 37 lines
TOPIC 1572.0 Is there a DIGITAL U*IX PASCAL?
1572.5Fri Apr 06 1990 11:08 See NAC::ULTRIX 1 lines
TOPIC 1585.0 PASCAL-F-SNDSPR, Internal Compiler Error w/4.0 instal
1585.5Tue Apr 24 1990 09:16 Packed instruction microcode corruption?? 11 lines
TOPIC 2160.0 emptyvar problem
2160.4Wed Feb 24 1993 11:36 Empty records contain no data no matter how big they are 20 lines
2160.5Wed Feb 24 1993 11:38 Collision 2 lines
TOPIC 2170.0 STRING Schema Function Return
2170.1Wed Mar 03 1993 18:19 Result-type must be type-name not schema-name 11 lines
TOPIC 2192.0 WRITELN bug in DEC PASCAL T5.0-5 (Alpha)
2192.3Mon Mar 29 1993 10:27 IEEE FP standard requires better accuracy 8 lines
TOPIC 2224.0 Mark and Release
2224.1Mon May 17 1993 09:00 Try PAS$MARK2 and PAS$RELEASE2 20 lines
TOPIC 2241.0 Support for "long real" (128 bit) floating point?
2241.1Tue Jun 08 1993 21:04 VAX yes, AXP maybe in the future 7 lines
TOPIC 2268.0 How does EOF work ?
2268.2Tue Aug 03 1993 22:10 EOF on TEXT is very special 3 lines
TOPIC 2274.0 Alpha OSF/1, Pascal "type text" to (FILE *) in C
2274.15Wed Aug 18 1993 12:03 Don't ask for the unsupportable to be supported 23 lines
TOPIC 2277.0 Declare large array - get massive image.
2277.2Thu Aug 12 1993 15:34 512K array is really 2048K 10 lines
TOPIC 2280.0 REPEAT faster then WHILE? Why?
2280.4Wed Aug 18 1993 11:46 GEM has it now 11 lines
TOPIC 2386.0 lib$spawn from pascal?
2386.5Sun Mar 20 1994 18:57 VOLATILE formal parameter would not work for LIB$SPAWN 18 lines
2386.10Mon Mar 21 1994 17:56 Steven <> CW 13 lines
TOPIC 2397.0 Printing a pointer type
2397.4Fri Apr 01 1994 12:36 Try the HEX builtin for printing pointers 8 lines
TOPIC 2438.0 Rounding problem
2438.7Fri Jul 01 1994 10:39 You're not a magician then don't cast spells 16 lines

Conference turris::vaxc (VAX C Notes)

2 posts
TOPIC 2807.0 Returning automatic var's that are on the STACK
2807.9Fri Apr 06 1990 11:19 struct valued functions no longer an extension 13 lines
TOPIC 2850.0 Contents of the V3.0 to V3.1 VAX C doc kit
2850.4Fri Apr 27 1990 09:03 paperback documentation is convenient 11 lines

Conference vaxaxp::notes$archive:alphanotes_v1 (Alpha Support conference)

30 posts
TOPIC 588.0 OpenVMS DBG> set watch?
588.20Tue Feb 16 1993 12:02 Only "useful" locked memory sequences need be supported 19 lines
TOPIC 631.0 Alpha Performance -- Expect Accelerating Activity
631.16Tue Sep 01 1992 12:09 OSF will have a full set of 64-bit compilers 3 lines
TOPIC 997.0 Alpha systems, models and VUPs
997.21Thu Nov 05 1992 10:57 SPECthru is not SPECmark!!! 25 lines
TOPIC 1010.0 Passing characters to logicals differs on Alpha
1010.15Thu Nov 05 1992 11:40 Not supported does not mean not implemented 28 lines
TOPIC 1322.0 ALPHA to VAX/VMS cross-compilers, any plans ?
1322.16Fri Dec 18 1992 11:09 Two compilers cost more than one 18 lines
TOPIC 1337.0 stepping over mov sp,fp in debugger
1337.11Mon Jan 04 1993 13:47 Calling Standard & Debugger are both correct--Macro code is wrong. 20 lines
TOPIC 1359.0 accessing saved FP
1359.1Tue Dec 29 1992 16:54 Read the latest Calling Standard manual 3 lines
TOPIC 1853.0 IEEE rounding modes ?
1853.12Thu Mar 25 1993 11:00 Infinities are your problem, not rounding, not underflow 24 lines
TOPIC 1935.0 HP message on CERN benchmark
1935.31Fri Apr 09 1993 19:11 Fix memory not floating mul-add 35 lines
TOPIC 1995.0 Seed Unit Performance ?
1995.4Wed Apr 07 1993 09:48 Pass 3 helps integer benchmarks too 8 lines
TOPIC 2055.0 Alpha architecture maxed out
2055.36Sat Apr 24 1993 22:55 Not maxed out with on-board latency 10 lines
TOPIC 2092.0 A New Alpha AXP Logo??!!
2092.48Tue Jun 08 1993 21:25 4 lines
TOPIC 2537.0 questions re: cvtas$t_to_a
2537.16Fri Jul 16 1993 11:05 The fields are the same size but the meanings are different 14 lines
TOPIC 2581.0 Global section incorrectly updated
2581.19Fri Sep 03 1993 09:43 Kits from different sources should be identical 31 lines
TOPIC 2650.0 help with stackframe port to alpha
2650.4Wed Aug 18 1993 11:08 R26 does not hold PC very long 13 lines
2650.8Thu Aug 19 1993 10:02 Use IARGCOUNT--do not uplevel look at R25 26 lines
TOPIC 2748.0 Implementing a setjump/longjump on AVMS
2748.3Fri Sep 03 1993 10:22 Setjmp must be builtin--no language independent\ 25 lines
TOPIC 2750.0 Are dynamic condition handlers possible?
2750.2Fri Sep 03 1993 10:36 Language RTLs do dynamic establishment 24 lines
TOPIC 2822.0 Where is pdsc$w_entry_length in the Procedure Descriptor
2822.5Wed Sep 22 1993 12:26 Be careful decoding procedure descriptors 16 lines
TOPIC 2967.0 Problem with INVO CONTEXT
2967.8Tue Oct 26 1993 19:27 Argument count info is destroyed before calling Macro routine 30 lines
TOPIC 2990.0 Big or Little Endian?
2990.5Fri Oct 29 1993 18:09 Slight bias in favor of little endian 11 lines
TOPIC 3107.0 PROBER + CMKRNL behaviour inconsistent
3107.4Mon Nov 29 1993 18:36 Some probing is necessary 8 lines
TOPIC 3218.0 IEEE Exceptions not being signaled on T2.0-FT3
3218.1Tue Dec 14 1993 20:26 Use SYS$IEEE_SET_FP_CONTROL 10 lines
TOPIC 3374.0 IEEE 754?
3374.7Thu Jan 27 1994 19:14 There are ECOs to AXP Floating Point Architecture 16 lines
3374.9Fri Jan 28 1994 13:52 NaNs in section 4.7.2 if it matters 14 lines
TOPIC 3502.0 get invo context of declarer of a signal handler
3502.4Sun Feb 27 1994 14:47 Global labels require special stack handling 19 lines
TOPIC 3615.0 Customer question regarding IEEE on AXP
3615.6Thu Mar 24 1994 10:22 Digital made the correct engineering trade-off 58 lines
TOPIC 3711.0 Unhappy Alpha OSF customer needs some help
3711.7Fri Apr 22 1994 20:05 Virtualy no programs need inexact signaling 49 lines
3711.9Sun Apr 24 1994 16:57 Very careful explanation to users needed 35 lines
3711.12Mon Apr 25 1994 11:35 Inexact division is special 20 lines

Conference clt::dec_pascal_bugs (DEC Pascal Bug Reports)

2 posts
TOPIC 400.0 %ref(4) not passing by reference, VAX
400.1Tue Jan 18 1994 13:39 V5.0 code is correct but often slower 6 lines
TOPIC 449.0 Don't create .OBJ or .PEN after errors
449.2Thu Apr 07 1994 20:21 No output is defined to have -F- severity not -ENo output is defined to have -F- severity (not -E-) 6 lines

Conference clt::rtl (OpenVMS Run-Time Libraries)

2 posts
TOPIC 400.0 ? on LIB$MOVTC and LIB$AB_EBC_ASC translation table.
400.6Thu Feb 08 1990 16:49 ASCII/EBCDIC mapping defined by ANSI card code standard 4 lines
TOPIC 844.0 EBCDIC Translation Tables - Which Standard is the table that VMS uses ?
844.2Fri Aug 20 1993 12:19 EBCDIC is a punched card code 17 lines

Conference decwet::physics (Physics)

1 posts
TOPIC 308.0 Solar tubes?
308.17Wed Mar 03 1993 19:07 BTU tax may not encourage solar energy 14 lines

Conference kaosws::mipsco (Digital's MIPS processors, etc.-DECstation,DECsystem 3100 et al)

1 posts
TOPIC 243.0 Byte-order Configuration
243.1Fri Feb 09 1990 14:38 Hardware determines byte order at chip reset 19 lines

Conference mvblab::sable (SABLE SYSTEM PUBLIC DISCUSSION)

1 posts
TOPIC 568.0 Strange benchmark results?
568.9Wed Oct 12 1994 21:38 It is better to stall in order to keep processor affinity 36 lines

Conference noted::hackers (** Hackers **)

1 posts
TOPIC 917.0 ULTRIX HACKERS
917.16Fri Feb 16 1990 14:15 Remember when the PC was in location 0 1 lines

Conference ricks::dechips (Hudson VLSI)

1 posts
TOPIC 248.0 Question on the return prediction stack
248.1Fri Dec 17 1993 11:32 Don't RET out of that routine, JMP out of it. 26 lines

Conference rusure::math (Mathematics at DEC)

2 posts
TOPIC 1850.0 Plant the Flag
1850.3Fri Mar 11 1994 19:51 12 Quarts 29 lines
1850.11Mon Mar 28 1994 19:06 11.5 quarts 17 lines

Conference tallis::vax (VAX Architecture)

1 posts
TOPIC 306.0 Floating overflow trap, fault
306.1Wed Mar 02 1994 16:09 Old VAX-11/780s trap--other VAXes fault 12 lines

Conference turris::bliss (Notes About BLISS)

11 posts
TOPIC 521.0 A^B, CH$ limit: BLISS wants to know your input
521.16Fri Jan 26 1990 16:26 BLISS is retargetable 39 lines
521.19Mon Jan 29 1990 08:52 If you don't like CH$COPY, redefine it 18 lines
TOPIC 523.0 Limit on # of params
523.8Fri Jan 19 1990 13:31 BLISS supports obsolete parameter modifications 20 lines
TOPIC 536.0 Getting caller's PC
536.2Mon Apr 02 1990 14:10 Use a dummy parameter to address stack 33 lines
TOPIC 537.0 Macro expansion blues...
537.5Tue Apr 17 1990 19:19 Capture old definition of symbol in macro 45 lines
TOPIC646.0Tue Oct 06 1992 09:56 "Green Book" may be reprinted 9 lines
646.4Tue Nov 17 1992 08:54 Patience--things take time 12 lines
TOPIC 655.0 Is this legal BLISS?
655.24Tue Jan 26 1993 10:46 A historical perspective 23 lines
TOPIC 656.0 A modest suggestion: Universal BLISS
656.1Wed Feb 03 1993 09:46 Have you vorried about which end is up?? 12 lines
TOPIC 671.0 Optimizer bug?
671.3Tue Jun 29 1993 02:36 Do not have aliases for named locations 27 lines
671.5Wed Jun 30 1993 11:48 Bind to the structures rather than binding to their pointers 26 lines

Conference turris::dec_fortran (DEC_FORTRAN)

1 posts
TOPIC 704.0 variable length common blocks?
704.3Mon Feb 08 1993 15:49 Blank COMMON is a pain on Unix 33 lines

Conference turris::decc (DECC)

15 posts
TOPIC 101.0 Is this a problem with the C RTL on AXP?
101.9Sun Mar 14 1993 19:11 "Conforming compiler" vs. "Product compiler" 19 lines
101.11Wed Mar 17 1993 17:52 De facto vs. de jure rules 23 lines
101.19Wed Mar 24 1993 14:31 Unix defines the rogue free--not K&R 26 lines
TOPIC 303.0 OpenVMS/AXP DEC C vs. (the rest of the world)
303.18Thu Jul 29 1993 10:54 Use cc -migrate on OSF V1.3 5 lines
TOPIC 309.0 /unsigned_char doesn't?
309.6Sun Aug 01 1993 16:41 3 different char types with 2 different semantics 22 lines
309.7Sun Aug 01 1993 16:53 Better help text might be a good QAR response 16 lines
TOPIC 313.0 FULL IEEE SUPPORT ON ALPHAVMS
313.4Wed Aug 04 1993 15:06 Synchronous exception is not software completion 20 lines
TOPIC 334.0 Mixing languages and SYS$OUTPUT
334.2Wed Aug 18 1993 11:22 Main program initialization?? 4 lines
TOPIC 402.0 unrecognized pragma is -I-, not -W- ... why?
402.5Mon Oct 04 1993 14:15 Why is nonstandard severity different from other DEC languages 16 lines
402.7Wed Oct 20 1993 17:18 "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" 45 lines
TOPIC 440.0 problem with reading 64 bits ints
440.3Thu Oct 28 1993 11:00 Who will review this? 6 lines
TOPIC 591.0 Request for user feedback on Fortran COMMON block/ C struct psect behavior
591.1Fri Feb 25 1994 19:30 Let's follow C language design principles 19 lines
TOPIC 610.0 Use of SYS$IEEE_SET_FP_CONTROL
610.11Mon May 02 1994 16:55 /NOOPT results are OK 12 lines
TOPIC 623.0 DCL $SEVERITY setting from DEC C
623.7Mon Mar 14 1994 10:00 Use SYS$EXIT rather than return 4 lines
TOPIC 624.0 setjmp/performance query
624.1Tue Mar 15 1994 13:01 setjmp is OS dependent 7 lines

Conference turris::languages (Languages)

3 posts
TOPIC 347.0 difference between casting and coercion?
347.5Mon Dec 28 1992 10:31 What level magician are you? 16 lines
TOPIC 384.0 Languages From Hell -- your favorite one could walk again! (reposted from comp.compilers)
384.13Thu Oct 06 1994 22:42 History of BASIC from someone who was there 28 lines
384.14Thu Oct 06 1994 22:48 MAD as hell 9 lines

Conference turris::pli (PL/I Notes)

5 posts
TOPIC 589.0 Are direct calls to PLI$READ, PLI$WRITE documented anywhere?
589.2Tue Jul 06 1993 20:56 Who is the oldest person you know? 15 lines
589.3Tue Jul 06 1993 21:17 You have to know where to look 15 lines
TOPIC 622.0 AXP PL/I inconsistency with VAX PL/I
622.1Thu Jan 27 1994 10:41 No error--just more information 12 lines
622.3Thu Jan 27 1994 20:51 There are 3 unreachable return statements 9 lines
622.6Tue Feb 01 1994 11:51 GEM can propagate constants through parameters sometimes 6 lines

Conference turris::porting_to_ultrix (Porting Software to Ultrix)

1 posts
TOPIC 169.0 RMS Services on Ultrix...?
169.1Fri Jan 26 1990 16:42 VAX FORTRAN/Ultrix uses RMS on Ultrix 11 lines

Conference turris::sdl (SDL Notes)

2 posts
TOPIC 355.0 PASCAL ENTRY problem
355.2Mon Mar 26 1990 10:15 23 lines
TOPIC 459.0 Latest SDL kit for VAX/VMS
459.5Sun Mar 20 1994 19:01 Language kits contain only SDL back end--not front end 5 lines

Conference 7.286::dcu (DCU)

1 posts
TOPIC 633.0 Where is the "Dividend" from the CU
633.9Thu Jan 07 1993 10:39 No simple answer for interest rates 21 lines

Conference ziglar::maple (MAPLE)

1 posts
TOPIC 129.0 SymbMath PC Package
129.5Mon Aug 08 1994 15:22 Student/Academic Maple Limits 32 lines

Conference noted::dup_old_ultrix (Volume 3, Take a RISC with ULTRIX...)

5 posts
TOPIC 548.0 Anyone have $FAB and $RAB?
548.3Tue Mar 13 1990 08:33 Try VAX FORTRAN/Ultrix libraries 13 lines
TOPIC 560.0 Generate .LIS file?
560.9Fri Mar 16 1990 10:00 Will f77 -S do what you want? 4 lines
TOPIC 582.0 FORT vs. f77 vs. ...?
582.5Fri Mar 16 1990 09:45 Stu Feldman not Berkeley wrote BSD f77 20 lines
582.7Fri Mar 16 1990 17:43 24 lines
TOPIC 896.0 About ultrix fortran
896.2Fri Apr 20 1990 10:38 Use f77 on RISC but fort on VAX 7 lines

Conference smurf::alpha_osf (This conferernce has moved to TURRIS::DIGITAL_UNIX)

20 posts
TOPIC 467.0 Will BL10 speed this up?
467.14Thu Nov 05 1992 10:24 Byte reads have a different performance limitation than byte writes 27 lines
467.19Fri Nov 06 1992 11:27 VMS favors byte memory operations more than Unix 39 lines
TOPIC 589.0 OSF/1 on Alpha
589.5Mon Nov 23 1992 23:45 NT also requires some real memory 4 lines
TOPIC 1043.0 Kuch and Associates Precompiler
1043.1Wed Feb 10 1993 08:50 Memory performance can be more important than CPU performance 35 lines
1043.3Wed Feb 10 1993 10:02 Corrected on-board cache performance 28 lines
TOPIC 1400.0 Need information to write an FPE handler
1400.2Fri Mar 26 1993 13:32 -ieee_with_no_inexact is recommended 518 lines
TOPIC 1825.0 SNAN and QNAN inverted?
1825.3Wed May 19 1993 16:40 IEEE floating point is fun 29 lines
TOPIC 2316.0 Frame Pointer Access
2316.3Tue Jul 20 1993 14:38 See Calling Standard documentation 5 lines
2316.4Tue Jul 20 1993 14:46 9 lines
TOPIC 2427.0 printf "%x" for floating?
2427.4Sun Aug 01 1993 17:29 HEX printf of a float works easily on MIPS based systems 23 lines
TOPIC 2528.0 asm("trapb") and volatile flags
2528.3Fri Aug 13 1993 13:03 What does "atomic" mean? 25 lines
TOPIC 3458.0 Underflow to zero
3458.1Wed Nov 17 1993 21:29 Update to quote in .0 10 lines
TOPIC 3677.0 RFP question
3677.2Sun Dec 05 1993 16:01 More than just FORTRAN 12 lines
TOPIC 4133.0 How to trap underflow under dbx?
4133.4Wed Jan 26 1994 13:06 -check underflow may be better than -fpe# 9 lines
TOPIC 4275.0 variable printf problem?
4275.3Sun Feb 06 1994 18:36 128-bit long double will complicate the situation 4 lines
TOPIC 5561.0 DEC C = cc -migrate = cc on OSF/1 V3.0?
5561.18Tue May 24 1994 15:39 Implementation-defined does not mean undefined nor non-conforming 22 lines
5561.21Wed May 25 1994 17:46 Silence is not always golden 31 lines
TOPIC 7884.0 Problem with iscntrl() C library function on OSF
7884.8Sat Nov 19 1994 16:20 unsigned's are sign extended in the calling standard 45 lines
7884.9Sat Nov 19 1994 16:27 Another example of carelessness with 32-bits 2 lines
7884.10Sat Nov 19 1994 17:50 cc -migrate should be fixed soon 9 lines

Conference smurf::alpha_osf_performance (ALPHA OSF Performance)

1 posts
TOPIC 2.0 ALPHA_OSF_PERFORMANCE MEMBER LIST
2.26Fri Dec 18 1992 10:52 Steven Hobbs 10 lines

Conference turris::alpha_bliss_bugs (ALPHA_BLISS_BUGS -- *DIGITAL CONFIDENTIAL*)

1 posts
TOPIC351.0Thu Jul 08 1993 16:41 First bind in a library is corrupted 27 lines

Conference turris::alpha_callstd (ALPHA Calling Standard)

8 posts
TOPIC 71.0 Explicitly saving R26
71.2Tue Mar 30 1993 09:48 R26 saving in most recent standard 6 lines
TOPIC 75.0 Record Layout Problem
75.6Fri Aug 20 1993 16:04 Let's not making *nested* records a special case 37 lines
75.18Thu Jan 06 1994 16:48 Use char or short bit fields instead of int bit fields 17 lines
TOPIC 76.0 VMS ECO 38/OSF ECO 1/WNT ECO 1 re X-floating
76.6Fri Aug 20 1993 15:48 16-byte alignment requires holes in argument list 24 lines
76.7Fri Aug 20 1993 18:55 Why don't we number parameters from zero :-) 2 lines
TOPIC 85.0 VMS Call Std ECO 42 re 64-bit descriptors
85.20Fri May 13 1994 16:44 Don't like DSC64$W_MBNZ having various possible values 17 lines
TOPIC 89.0 VMS Call Std ECO 44 re F90 NCA Flag
89.13Mon Nov 14 1994 20:53 Yes 2 lines
TOPIC 90.0 WNT Call Std ECO 4 re saving ra 'twice'
90.2Sat Dec 10 1994 17:50 Be careful with new wording 18 lines

Conference turris::alpha_l (Alpha_L)

2 posts
TOPIC 29.0 Psect length mismatch on AVMS
29.4Sun Feb 06 1994 17:02 Look at previous problem with struct size rounding 15 lines
TOPIC 37.0 OSF: rtls should be compiled with -pg for gprofing
37.1Fri May 13 1994 16:51 -pg should search alternative profiling library 5 lines

Conference turris::decc_alpha (DEC C ALPHA CONFERENCE)

5 posts
TOPIC 897.0 modifying static!
897.3Wed Oct 07 1992 19:52 Digital should sell products not compilers 33 lines
897.7Thu Oct 08 1992 11:20 K&R 1st Ed. does not allow string literal pooling 5 lines
TOPIC 943.0 Homebrewed setjmp/longjmp causes ACCVIO with OPT=4
943.8Tue Dec 01 1992 11:05 setjmp cannot work with FORTRAN 30 lines
TOPIC 1002.0 signal() signals fp overflow as HPARITH?
1002.2Tue Nov 17 1992 09:33 Alpha floating exceptions are very different from VAX exceptions 27 lines
1002.4Wed Nov 18 1992 12:32 Alpha hardware generates traps not faults 42 lines

Conference turris::evax_bliss (BLISS compilers for Alpha AXP -- ** DIGITAL CONFIDENTIAL **)

8 posts
TOPIC 3.0 Ron Brender on Handlers
3.3Mon Jan 15 1990 13:53 4 lines
3.5Wed Jan 17 1990 09:21 3 lines
TOPIC11.0Wed Jan 17 1990 20:40 Add LINKAGE storage-class 10 lines
TOPIC 19.0 Compiler-state lexical for "size of an addresss" - %UPADDR?
19.4Thu May 03 1990 10:38 Does BLISS know the difference between VMS and ULTRIX 16 lines
TOPIC 187.0 PSECT (MODIFY xxx) ??
187.8Fri Oct 23 1992 20:58 User should control MOD attribute but not NOMOD attribute 10 lines
TOPIC 238.0 How to use Index from an INCR statement..
238.7Mon May 17 1993 10:30 Bliss programmers are sometimes very lucky 30 lines
TOPIC 269.0 How to supress %BLS32-I-UNINIT?
269.9Thu Jan 27 1994 10:56 A new builtin is the only reliable solution 13 lines
TOPIC 286.0 Bliss compiler for PC???????????
286.1Mon Sep 26 1994 16:28 In the past such a BLISS existed--but no more 6 lines

Conference turris::evax_bliss (BLISS compilers for Alpha AXP -- ** DIGITAL CONFIDENTIAL **)

8 posts
TOPIC 3.0 Ron Brender on Handlers
3.3Mon Jan 15 1990 13:53 4 lines
3.5Wed Jan 17 1990 09:21 3 lines
TOPIC11.0Wed Jan 17 1990 20:40 Add LINKAGE storage-class 10 lines
TOPIC 19.0 Compiler-state lexical for "size of an addresss" - %UPADDR?
19.4Thu May 03 1990 10:38 Does BLISS know the difference between VMS and ULTRIX 16 lines
TOPIC 187.0 PSECT (MODIFY xxx) ??
187.8Fri Oct 23 1992 20:58 User should control MOD attribute but not NOMOD attribute 10 lines
TOPIC 238.0 How to use Index from an INCR statement..
238.7Mon May 17 1993 10:30 Bliss programmers are sometimes very lucky 30 lines
TOPIC 269.0 How to supress %BLS32-I-UNINIT?
269.9Thu Jan 27 1994 10:56 A new builtin is the only reliable solution 13 lines
TOPIC 286.0 Bliss compiler for PC???????????
286.1Mon Sep 26 1994 16:28 In the past such a BLISS existed--but no more 6 lines

Conference turris::mips_bliss (MIPS BLISS Conference)

7 posts
TOPIC 55.0 Cannot store to or fetch from routine
55.4Fri Feb 16 1990 13:54 Why? 7 lines
55.5Fri Feb 16 1990 14:00 I see now but BLISS still needs to be fixed 9 lines
55.10Fri Feb 16 1990 18:16 28 lines
55.17Thu Feb 22 1990 15:48 Don't blame GEM 27 lines
55.21Mon Feb 26 1990 09:51 There are applications for fetch from a routine 3 lines
TOPIC 64.0 Problems w/ ACTUALCOUNT (C to BLISS)
64.3Wed Mar 28 1990 09:31 Argument counts not part of C language 7 lines
TOPIC 65.0 What do we do with CALLG
65.6Thu Mar 29 1990 09:26 The BLISS project leader drops a dot 12 lines

Conference isvhub::alpha_vms (Porting to Alpha AXP)

3 posts
TOPIC 408.0 IEEE Design error
408.2Wed Nov 17 1993 19:23 AXP is no different than other RISCs when handling NaNs 58 lines
TOPIC 545.0 Re-invokeble condition handler
545.4Mon Aug 01 1994 16:31 HANDLER_REINVOKABLE an option on AXP VMS 13 lines
545.9Tue Aug 02 1994 11:45 Try MACRO or PL/I 35 lines

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