[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/17/2022 12:27 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <620e5870$0$701$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
>> VSI has stated their intention to go with flang. Which is really saying
>> that they have no intention of shoehorning the newer Fortran standards
>> into the old compiler. Which makes sense.
>>
>> And since it will be LLVM based then it must be x86-64 only.
>>
>> And they will want all existing compilers plus clang running natively on
>> VMS x86-64 before they get to flang. Realistically I think it will be
>> quite some years before it is available.
> 
> Better late than never.  :-|
> 
> But the equivalent of the Alpha compiler (essentially F95) will be on
> x86 from the start?

I believe the I64 hosted cross-compiler is already available
and the native hosted version will be available end of year.

At least that was the message VSI put out last year.

Arne