[Info-vax] Fortran

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-03 kl. 14:08, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2018-12-03, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <g6jcegFmjliU1 at mid.individual.net>, Steve Lionel
>> <steve at seesignature.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> It's official! ISO published Fortran 2018 on November 28! Online copies
>>> are not available due to ISO copyright rules - you can buy a copy from
>>> ISO - but J3 has a working document as a source for interpretations at
>>> https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/18/18-007r1.pdf .
>>
>> When will we see this on VMS?
>>
> 
> Alpha (and probably Itanium): Approximately never.
> 
> x86-64: After the following overall sequence of events:
> 
> 1) Integration of Fortran 2018 into LLVM is complete,
> 2) x86-64 VMS is released,
> 3) John ports CMake to x86-64 VMS,
> 4) John ports a recent version of LLVM to x86-64 VMS.
> 
> My best guess is approximately lunchtime on Friday. Maybe teatime
> instead if the schedule slips. :-)
> 
>> I remember a statement from VSI that one of their goals was to have
>> up-to-date compilers.
>>
> 
> I thought that was only for LLVM based compilers and that LLVM
> was only going to be available for x86-64 VMS. Are there any
> plans I have missed to port LLVM to earlier VMS architectures ?
> 
> Simon.
> 

Was "earlier VMS architectures" even mentioned in the post from Phillip?