[Info-vax] New first boot contest ?, was: Re: Fortran

[Bob Gezelter]

On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 2:18:06 PM UTC-5, John Reagan wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 1:46:59 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > On 2018-12-05, John Reagan  wrote:
> > > Not to worry.  Under no circumstances would we add /STANDARD=VAXC to
> > > clang. That would be insanity.  We're more likely to recode our Macro32
> > > into JavaScript and PHP.
> > >
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > > I'm starting with the list of additions we made to the Intel C++ compiler
> > > on Itanium (which is already much smaller than C++ in Alpha) and cutting
> > > from there.  I'll finish up the spec after the holidays and first boot. 
> >                                                  ^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^
> > > I'll post it then in a new thread for what will surely be a lively
> > > discussion.
> > 
> > Oh, I don't think that's the lively discussion you have just started. :-)
> > 
> > Are VSI planning on running a new first boot contest, given how close
> > it now appears to be ?
> > 
> > Simon.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Simon Clubley, 
> > Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world
> 
> All I said (or implied) is that I have some vacation to use up later this month, I have other things to do (both work and personal), and my first priority is for Macro-32 bugs that are found as part of the first boot debugging.  My latest one was for "SOBGEQ (SP), 1$".  I accidentally decremented the stack pointer (the %rsp register) and not the top of the stack as intended. 
> 
> I did not imply that first boot would be before or after any holiday (nor did I specify the holiday :) )
> 
> I have not heard anything about re-opening the contest, etc.  Clair's posts showing additional progress provide plenty of detail.

John,

As a reference to a GHW Bush quote (to the effect that the "undecided will decide"), it is without a doubt that the first boot will be "before or after a holiday".

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com