[Info-vax] link to what is actually being ported to x86?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-06, gérard Calliet <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>
> For x86 we will be able to do the same cross compile buil from gcc. And 
> because Adacore works on a LLVM front end prototype, we'll be able to 
> use it to have a native Ada compiler on x86 / LLVM.
>

You still need the VMS specific support in that LLVM prototype.

>
> One important aspect here is the information. As for VMS it is important 
> to say "there is a clear future for Ada on VMS, and there is now support 
> for it". Because this information inhibit somehow the wrong decisions to 
> go out from VMS.
>

But the problem Gerard is that there _isn't_ a clear future for Ada
on VMS. At the end of next month VSI will have been around for 5 years
and VSI still don't have a clear answer.

I _don't_ blame VSI for that one little bit BTW, because, given the
history of Ada compilers on VMS, they have clearly inherited a very
difficult situation not of their making.

Simon.

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