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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 9/7/16 6:36 PM, clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 7:01:49 PM UTC-4, johnso... at gmail.com wrote:

>> 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.

All of the VSI releases to date have v8.4 in the name. Yes, with another
number or two and a dash, but they are all still v8.4. So I took the
question to be whether there will be an up-to-date version of C++ for
current releases of OpenVMS I64.

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

I think John Reagan has mostly answered this in the past. As far as I
remember what I've read here, new standards for C and C++ (except for
some C99 items still missing from the CRTL) will only arrive from VSI
via clang and clang++. Which means they will be x86_64 only, unless
someone has a billion dollars burning a hole in their pocket and wants
to resurrect llvm-ia64. Or wants to wait for the port to ARM or POWER :-).