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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-09-02, Richard Levitte <richard at levitte.org> wrote:
> Den fredag 7 juni 2019 kl. 21:17:20 UTC+2 skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>> Back in the day, DEC's compilers were widely recognized as the  best, 
>> and in many cases were the de-facto industry standard.  I'd like to see 
>> that revived.
>
> For quite a while, DEC C was the meanest compiler I had access to to build OpenSSL, and it did uncover some subtle bugs that the compilers on Linux and Windows didn't.  That is, until we started playing to clang...  that compiler greatly changed the playing field...
>

And as Phillip was told at the time, the compiler world has moved on
dramatically since the DEC compilers were created.

LLVM based compilers (including clang) are the future for VMS on x86-64.

There is no justifiable business case for spending the time and resources
to bring the DEC compilers up to modern standards when the LLVM ecosystem
exists.

Simon.

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