In article <bk5slp$1mdi$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Serge K says...
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>> I'll worry about that when we've got a port to a cpu with different double formats!
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>Then you can relax - VAX is dead, and AlphaAXP has support for VAX double format only for backward compatibility. Or should it be "had"? ..since Alpha is almost dead.
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Uh, I was just looking at the HP site and it seems that a new version of OpenVMS is due out. (Yay!) Maybe a D compiler for it isn't such a bad idea after all?

John Boucher
The King had Humpty pushed.

> Uh, I was just looking at the HP site and it seems that a new version of
OpenVMS
> is due out. (Yay!) Maybe a D compiler for it isn't such a bad idea after
all?

Well, AFAIK C/C++ for Alpha does not support VAX double format anyhow.
(maybe, Cobol does?;-)