[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 7:01:49 PM UTC-4, johnso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 5:26:13 PM UTC-4, clairg... at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > > From the State of the Port:
> > > 
> > > I see you are planning to support C using the GEM frontend but you
> > > are switching to clang for C++. I assume that's to track the ongoing
> > > language enhancements to C++ without you having to continue to expand
> > > resources performing your own implementation of those enhancements.
> > > 
> > 
> > That is part of the reason. The other is that the Itanium C++ comes from Intel.
> > We don't need to be doing that anymore.
> 
> Just to clarify.
> 
> Will there be a new C++ compiler for IA-64 running with VMS v8.4?

I can't answer that one. V8.4 is an HPE product; you will have to ask them.

> Does that new C++ compiler support c++-11?
> Does it support c++-14?
>

When we move to clang / LLVM on x86 we will we try to keep up with the community as best we can.
 
> EJ