[Info-vax] Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 8:55:43 AM UTC-4, gérard Calliet wrote:
> Le 20/02/2020 à 03:45, John Reagan a écrit :
> > I'll need Cmake on OpenVMS to build LLVM on x86.
> Will we get Cmake and up-to-date LLVM also on itanium ?
> <

Yes.  We have looked at recent CMake versions.  And we're about to start our native bootstrapping with LLVM 10.0.1 all the way from our cross-compilers that uses 3.4.2.  We plan to keep current on LLVM releases and will release our source changes.  I'd like to check those directly into the LLVM repository. 

There might be some VMS-specific changes to libcxx/libcxxabi to match it into the OpenVMS conditional handling facility.   

As for any changes we make to clang:  Those might be more extensive and objectionable to the clang developers.  Those changes may have to stay local to VSI and we would just have to merge each time.