[Info-vax] Fortran

[John Reagan]

On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 12:44:45 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 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?
> 
> I remember a statement from VSI that one of their goals was to have 
> up-to-date compilers.

To be specific, the roadmap has mentions improved standards compliance for C, C++, and Fortran.  I just want to shut down any discussion of object-oriented COBOL from newer COBOL standards.  Or Extended Pascal (although we're about 2/3rds compliant on that with DEC extensions to cover much of the rest).

I've been in touch with the flang/f18 folks.  I've been code reviewing some of their recent changes to get DWARF generation for Fortran specific features like COMMON blocks, etc.

What I imagine is that once we are fully native with a newer clang/LLVM, we'll look at providing flang/f18 on OpenVMS x86 along side of the traditional Fortran compiler so you can choose.  Probably not at the very first release, but I'd hope very soon afterwards.

Here's the latest flang/f18 update from this fall's LLVM developer's meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkccs4EIiac