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

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 6:42:16 AM UTC-4, clairg... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 6:19:45 AM UTC-4, johnso... at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at 10:18:35 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Right. So I think I was trying to decode what was meant on the bottom
> > left corner of page 2 of the VSI roadmap where it says
> > 
> > H2 2016 Announcements
> > - C++ Compiler availability
> > - Support for pure storage... blah blah blah
> > 
> > I think I was reading too much into that first bullet and hoping
> > that it was a newish C++ compiler for VMS v8.4-X.Y for some
> > version of ia64.
> > 
> > Sounds like the answer is no.
> > 
> > EJ
> 
> Until recently we did not have a C++ compiler for VSI releases. It took a long time to finalize an agreement with Intel. This is the same compiler that has been shipping on HPE versions of VMS. We are working on updating the CRTL but have plans to change the compiler itself on Itanium.

Yikes......bad proof reading...

....but have NO plans to change the compiler.....