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

[Bernard Giroud]

Le 25/04/2013 14:07, Simon Clubley a écrit :
> On 2013-04-25, gingold at adacore.com <gingold at adacore.com> wrote:
>> Congrats!
>
> Thank you.
>

Congratulations too! You gave me the desire to tackle the beast again ! 
(Do you remember our exchange in this newsgroup started 2004-09-09 ?).

> As I wanted to try building a larger program, I tried to use the cross
> compiler to build binutils in VMS hosted mode. I got through a large
> part of the process (with mainly header related issues) before ld failed
> with a internal error in vms-alpha.c while building size.
>
> However, it looks like the section of code in vms-alpha.c which failed
> has been worked on since the version of binutils I am using[*], so I will
> have another play with it sometime.
>
> Simon.
>
> [*] When building gcc/binutils over the years, I've traditionally liked to
> stay a couple of versions behind when possible as the issues I trip over
> tend to have made it to Bugzilla and elsewhere by then.
>
> When I started looking at this, it looked like the majority of public
> commits for VMS Alpha had happened several years ago, so I thought a
> gcc/binutils from a year or two ago would not make any difference.
> I'm currently rethinking that given come of the recent commits I've now
> come across. :-)
>

I'm pretty sure that, given the work already done on Bash, GNV and al.,
we can have the latest binutils running on Alpha.

Do you know by chance how well Integrity is supported in binutils ?

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Bernard Giroud
Open Source COBOL Tools Developer