[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 10:03:36 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Linux shimulation is not going to speed the delivery of the OpenVMS 
> x86-64 semi-production and production versions, nor the availability of 
> native compilers. 

If VMS compatibility for user-mode code just takes the form of a library to link against, then VMS-specific compilers shouldn’t be necessary. You could use the existing GNU and LLVM compilers, and just implement wrappers that understand the VMS-specific options.