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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qkllb5$rmq$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> 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.

I don't really care what is under the hood, as long as it works.  But I 
want a good HELP, good documentation, good debugger, good error 
messages, efficient code, and so on.

VSI announced a new TCPIP stack today, as well as regular updates to it.

What compilers, supporting what standards, will be offered and when?