[Info-vax] The Road to V9.0

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 3:36:39 PM UTC-4, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 11:53:35 AM UTC-4, John Reagan wrote:
> > In the compiler world, we have the Fortran and Pascal cross-compilers pretty much ready.  COBOL and BASIC still in progress.  The C99-compliant headers (new <stdint.h>, moved stuff from <inttypes.h> into <stdint.h> as they belong, new directives for printf/sprintf/strftime/etc.) are checked in.
> 
> John,
> 
> WADR, I suspect that C and MACRO were inadvertently omitted.
> 
> Has there been an attempt to run MACRO and/or C native on x86?
> 
> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Since this thread was about post-first-boot, I figured we all knew that Macro, C, and BLISS are already present.

As for running any compiler natively on x86, we have to bootstrap LLVM which needs C++.  That is a more complicated process since we don't have a C++ cross-compiler on OpenVMS Itanium.