[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support

[Bob Koehler]

In article <52f13154$0$46215$c3e8da3$3a1a2348 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Since there are already compilers for x86-64, wouldn't it be simpler to
> just adapt an existing one to support VMS ? Or does the need for Bliss
> and Macro-32 require a x86-64 version of GEM, and once you have that,
> you might as well use the existing compilers that run on VMS ?
> 

   The BLISS compiler that FreeVMS was (is?) using was based on gcc,
   no GEM.

   I think gcc's back end for x86-64 ought to work just fine.