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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/8/2022 9:35 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> 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.

s/in/be available at/w

>                    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.

Hmmm.

So we will be deep into 2023 before all native compilers are available?

Arne