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

[Tim Sneddon]

Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/2019 11:59 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 9/5/2019 11:06 PM, Tim Sneddon wrote:
>>
>>> The unnoticed benefit of this direction could be resurection of the
>>> SCAN compiler... :-p
>>
>> We (VSI) do have the SCAN source (I think it was also open-sourced).
>>

I didn't think anyone would take me seriously, hence the emoji.  I'm
pretty sure that someone "retargetted" it to C at some point.  I seem
to remember Alpha SCAN some time in the distant past...possibly from
Stromasys, before they wre called Stromasys?  The fact that I couldn't
find any trace of it is probably an indication of how much interest
there is in that :-)

> 
> Grumble ....
> 
> You got me curious, tried to look it up.  Did not find "scan compiler". 
> Any pointers to info?
> 

Rob is correct.  SCAN was open-sourced, or at the very least "released"
on the Freeware V4 CD:

    https://www.digiater.nl/downloads/freeware/v40/vaxscan/

Regards, Tim.