[Info-vax] VMS Version Compatibility Matrices

[John Reagan]

On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 6:28:40 AM UTC-4, GerMarsh wrote:
> I have just been around in circles attempting to determine the compatibility of the later versions of VMS - V8.4 onwards - with various compilers.
> 
> Some links on the HPE site go nowhere and, for example, the only doc I could find for BASIC shows V1.6 where we are already running V1.7!
> 
> The VSI roadmap indicates that a new version of BASIC has been released but there is no detail.
> 
> Is this info on the web now or do I need to contact HPE or VSI?

The VSI BASIC compiler is a rebrand of the latest HPE BASIC compiler plus one bug fix for support quadword values with the MOD operator.  It had been fixed by HPE back in 2012 but only provided to select customers via the support center.  That fix was rolled into the mainline and is present in the VSI compiler.