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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: Shared images, some differences on ALPHA
- Message-ID: <1992Oct8.151434.719@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 8 Oct 92 15:14:34 PDT
- References: <3026@mitech.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
- Lines: 23
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- In article <3026@mitech.com>, gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
- > By the way, LINK/SHARE works a bit differently on ALPHA. Indications I've
- > gotten (e.g. months ago from OSF/MOTIF source codes) are that there is
- > no longer any "globalref" or "globaldef" stuff, for example. e.g.
- >
- > #if defined(VMS) && !define(ALPHA)
- > globaldef ...
- > #else
- > extern ...
- > #endif
- >
- > was seen.
-
- 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...
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and
- Chair, VMS Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VAX Systems SIG
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