[Info-vax] GCC for VMS, was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<craigberry-0E8D50.22030917042013 at news.eternal-september.org>,
 "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at mac.com.invalid> wrote:

> While VAX Fortran was my first computer language, I haven't done any 
> Fortran in twenty years and I don't have a very good sense of what role 
> the library plays in the language.  Given that SYS$SHARE:DEC$FORRTL.EXE 
> is about one tenth the size of SYS$SHARE:DECC$SHR.EXE, I'm guessing 
> it's not quite as big a deal as the C run-time.  But still, getting a 
> "foreign" Fortran compiler fully functional on VMS would likely require 
> various kinds of glue for exit handlers, threads, and such, and, if you 
> want to use native libraries, rights to use SYS$LIBRARY:FORSYSDEF.TLB 
> or an independently-developed equivalent.

Going back to the last time I used VAX Fortran we made extensive use of 
third party libraries and runtime processes.  I believe those did make 
it to Alpha, but don't know whether they made it to Itanium.  Without 
those a complete rewrite of the applications would be the only way 
forwards.

-- 
Paul Sture