[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-01-12 15:59:07 +0000, John Reagan said:

> On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 10:18:56 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> The migration from VCG to GEM was already mentioned else-thread, and  
>> code generation is being entirely replaced again with LLVM with the  
>> x86-64 port.
> 
> VAX Fortran does not use the VCG.  It has its own code generator.  Only 
> PL/1, C, SCAN, and Ada used the VCG on VAX (and they are clones of each 
> other, each subtly different).  BASIC, BLISS-32, COBOL, Fortran, and 
> Pascal each have their own code generator.

Thanks.   (As if there needed to be yet another reason to toss VAX 
under under the I/O bus.)


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