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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX C - relative adresses?
Message-ID: <3144@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 18:51:12 GMT
References: <8805170934.AA05192@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8805170934.AA05192@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> LEICHTER@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU 
("Jerry Leichter ", LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU) writes:
>	[In VAX C,] I would like to create a static table of address offsets
>	in VAX C, like

It's better to say "VMS C" because it avoids mixing up hardware (VAX)
with software (VMS).  It also avoids the ambiguity of VMS versus UNIX
or Ultrix etc.

DEC document writers are quite confused about this issue, but we
users and programmers should know better.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi