[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 6/7/2019 1:59 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-06-07, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
 
> There appears to be some confusion here, so let me ask the question
> outright:
> 
> Will the C/Macro-32/BLISS/Fortran/etc compilers for x86-64 VMS 9.0 be
> x86-64 VMS hosted native compilers or will they continue to be
> cross-compilers hosted elsewhere ?

V9.0 will have IA64-hosted compilers.

We expect that V9.1 will be native X86_64.
 
>> This given a hunk of the operating system?the security components known 
>> as ACME?is written in Ada, for instance.
>>
> Is it still Ada ? I thought VSI had mentioned early on that code was
> going to be rewritten in another language.
 
It's being rewritten in C.

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                      -- Rob