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Re: ld for VMS?
- From: "h.becker" <becker dot ismaning at freenet dot de>
- To: Jay K <jay dot krell at cornell dot edu>
- Cc: gingold at adacore dot com, rupp at gnat dot com, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 11:14:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: ld for VMS?
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Jay K wrote:
Tristan, why do you say transferring .obj is difficult? I maybe agree -- I can't seem to do it -- but I wonder what your experience was, to maybe fix mine.
This applies to Alpha and VAX object files: because the record structure
is lost during ftp-style transfers. A binary transfer from Linux/Unix to
VMS creates a fixed record structure on VMS. That's wrong, it is a
variable length record structur. A binary transfer from VMS to
Linux/Unix transfers the data of the records not the length fields. So
you have to have some pre- or postprocessing on the VMS side. And you
can't avoid this with an archiver.
Hartmut