From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  Information on Unix/Vax peculiarities
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4608
Posted: Sat Dec  4 11:02:51 1982
Received: Mon Dec  6 08:01:10 1982

From:     Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Date:     30 Nov 82 18:41:58 EST  (Tue)
From: Charles F. Von Rospach <CHUQUI at MIT-MC>

	I have a program which seems to have been written for the PDP11.
	. . . It seems that whoever wrote the program is doing some funny
	things in a large integer array, reading and writing into it with
	a character pointer.  . . . It seems as though it is assuming that
	an integer is 16bits . . .

	chuck (chuqui at mit-mc)

This may not work in your case, but I've found when transporting PDP-11
programs to a VAX, the cc command line argument ``-Dint=short'' useful.