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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-24, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2013-04-24, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just so that I'm understanding here... :-)
>>
>> Whas that "Hello world" program in Fortran or in C ?
>>
>
> It was in C; I don't even know how much work would be needed before
> the Fortran implementation in gcc will build on VMS (even as a
> cross compiler).
>
> I have only built a C only cross compiler so far; experience has taught
> me that when bringing up gcc in a new environment to focus in getting
> C-only to work first. The other languages can come later if one is so
> inclined to work on getting them running. :-)
>

I should also point out this was just a quick proof of concept type
build so this is a bare bones compiler. For example, I have not tried
to build multilibs, so I don't know if Alpha gcc has multilibs available
and if they are supported by Ada.

I gave up trying to get the dwarf2 unwind code to build so I switched to
building gcc using sjlj exceptions. There are also a range of other issues
which would need work before something suitable for release, even as a
cross compiler, could be considered.

Simon.

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