User`s guide

Related Documents
This manual refers readers to the following manuals for additional information
on certain topics:
• Porting Applications from HP OpenVMS Alpha to HP OpenVMS Industry
Standard 64 for Integrity Servers describes how to port an application from
OpenVMS Alpha to OpenVMS I64 systems.
• Migrating an Environment from OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS Alpha
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provides
an overview of the VAX to Alpha migration process and information to help
you plan a migration. It discusses the decisions you must make in planning
a migration and the ways to get the information you need to make those
decisions. In addition, it describes the migration methods and tools available
so that you can estimate the amount of work required for each method and
select the method best suited to a given application.
• Migrating an Application from OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS Alpha describes
how to build an OpenVMS Alpha version of your OpenVMS VAX application
by recompiling and relinking it. It discusses dependencies your application
may have on features of the VAX architecture (such as assumptions about
page size, synchronization, and condition handling) that you may need to
modify to create a native OpenVMS Alpha version. In addition, the manual
describes how you can create applications in which native OpenVMS Alpha
components interact with translated OpenVMS VAX components.
• HP OpenVMS Calling Standard describes the mechanisms used to allow
procedure calls on OpenVMS VAX, OpenVMS Alpha, and OpenVMS I64
systems.
• VAX MACRO and Instruction Set Reference Manual
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provides information
about VAX instructions and the standard VAX MACRO assembly language
directives.
• OpenVMS System Messages: Companion Guide for Help Message Users
describes how to use the Help Message utility to obtain information about the
MACRO assembler messages and MACRO compiler messages.
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