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Programming 1 — What tools will help me port software to Digital UNIX?

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Programming 1 — What tools will help me port software to Digital UNIX?

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The Digital Porting Assistant (available for Digital UNIX 3.2, and shipped as part of the developer toolkit on Digital UNIX 4.0) is a graphical environment which aids in the porting process. In addition to doing lint-like checking of C and Fortran code, it also contains extensive on-line help regarding developing software on Digital UNIX. Information about the Digital Porting Assistant can be found on the web at: http://www.digital.com/info/porting_assistant The version of lint shipped with Digital UNIX has many checks to help port software to Alpha. In particular, the -Q option is very useful. See the manual page for more details. There is also a document/book entitled: Interoperability, OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 A company called Sector 7 deals with porting software from OpenVMS to Digital/Tru64 UNIX. http://www.sector7.com The -taso flag to cc will often help with making code work on the 64bit Alpha. This causes addresses to be 32-bits and should be used only as a last resort. FreePort E