[Info-vax] OpenVMS E9.2 Field Test Begins

[John Reagan]

On Friday, April 8, 2022 at 9:16:12 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 
> Do you have an idea about which native compilers will be in final 9.2 
> release and what compilers will show up in 9.2 later in 2022? 
> 
While the cross-compilers have shipped in sync with OS releases, you should
consider native compilers to be layered products just like they are on Alpha
and Itanium.  So in that sense, other than Macro, V9.2 doesn't contain any
bundled compilers.  The roadmap says that in the V9.2 timeframe, there will
be Macro, BLISS, C++.  I suspect that only a few of you care about BLISS but
it is a good exerciser of the native G2L converter and newer LLVM backend.
C is in the "next" section of the roadmap, but we're doing that now since that
is the next best choice.

And yes, I quote Fred Brooks (who is still alive at the age of 90) often when
others suggest adding new people into the tail end of a project.   In addition,
our traditional compiler test suites aren't well suited the test setup we have.
We've been waiting on a more functional network and clustering just like
everybody else.  There is a native version of DTM but not all of my test harnesses
are DTM based.