[Info-vax] Making the CRTL version dependency information useful

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/15/2018 11:19 AM, Ian Miller wrote:
> On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 2:31:54 AM UTC, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/14/2018 8:21 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> Definitely no PL/I on VMS x86-64.
>>>
>>> Last time I checked, we still didn't know what the situation is with
>>> Ada on x86-64 either...
>>
>> Ada is ACT.
>>
>> We may not know, but a guess would be that they would not port.
>> At least not until they see a significant market. I believe they
>> are cutting down on platforms not expanding.
> 
> There was a OpenVMS ADA from Adacore but they stopped supporting it.

Ah. I knew they were cutting down, but I did not know/recall that
VMS was already dropped.

> There is this one http://www.vmsadaall.org/index.php/en/

Interesting. And good initiative.

But with all due respect that web site look a little "new".

> I hope VSI are talking to someone about ADA as there is
> definitely a need for a support OpenVMS ADA compiler

It will certainly be easier to keep GNAT working on
VMS after the move to x86-64 (I assume that the backend
support for x86-64 is a lot better than for IA-64).

And while I think PL/I should have switched to
JVM as target platform, then I don't think
that will work for many Ada users (real time,
hardware close etc.).

[ACT actually did support JVM as platform up to 2013
version, but I suspect it got ditched due to low
demand]


Arne