[Info-vax] Fortran

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/3/2018 8:12 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> Was "earlier VMS architectures" even mentioned in the post from Phillip?

No.

But I think there are two different sort of implicit assumptions:

will XYZ be available on VMS = will XYZ be available on VMS x86-64

will XYZ be available on VMS = will XYZ be available on VMS on all 
supported platforms

Arne