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- From: critz@star.enet.dec.com (Richard Critz)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: MACRO32 vs. Alpha
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.193221.1233@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 19:32:21 GMT
- References: <714675321.287197.MILLER@TGV.COM>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: critz@star.enet.dec.com (Richard Critz)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH
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- In article <714675321.287197.MILLER@TGV.COM>, MILLER@TGV.COM writes:
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- |>SDA works fairly well. Patch does not seem to have been ported yet.
- |>Both of those will understand Alpha opcodes instead of VAX.
- |>
- |>-bruce
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- SDA on OpenVMS Alpha is actually a bit more advanced than on OpenVMS VAX.
- Patch not only has not been ported, there are no plans to port it. The
- support mechanism for correcting images is to replace them, not patch them.
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- Richard Critz critz@star.enet.dec.com
- -- I speak only for myself; I make no commitments for Digital. --
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