[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.1, native, and cross-compilers (was: Re: Integrity iLO Configuration?)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/24/21 3:49 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-06-24 19:17:05 +0000, Craig A. Berry said:
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>> There are no native compilers in v9.0 so he'd still need an itanic to 
>> cross-compile.  v9.1 with native compilers is due 2021H1, i.e. within 
>> the next week or so, assuming it's on time.
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> There are seemingly no native compilers in V9.1.

You're right, not on initial release.  But some will appear as updates
to v9.1 and before v9.2 if I'm understanding what I'm reading.

> At least one cross-compiler—BASIC—is seemingly arriving subsequent to 
> the V9.1 release, and the native compilers are also mostly (entirely?) 
> arriving subsequent to V9.1.
> 
>  From the 2021H2 section of the VSI OpenVMS roadmap:
> 
>> Native compilers with LLVM backend code generator: BLISS, XMACRO, 
>> Pascal, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN [sic, presumably], C, C++
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> https://vmssoftware.com/about/roadmap/
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