[Info-vax] Fortran

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/3/2018 9:13 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 12:44:45 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig
> (undress to reply) wrote:
>> 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.

Interest for that seems to be low. If somebody want OO they
pick another language.

>                                                                Or
> Extended Pascal (although we're about 2/3rds compliant on that with
> DEC extensions to cover much of the rest).

This I don't get. Are there any newer Pascal standards?

> 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.

The benefits of using an industry standard CPU and an industry standard
compiler backend.

Arne