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

[gérard Calliet]

Le 06/06/2019 à 19:51, Simon Clubley a écrit :
> 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.
Of course. I don't say everything done. A lot of understanding on both 
sides. But the opportunity will be opened.
> 
>>
>> 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.
>