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

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 9:15:14 AM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/17/2022 5:28 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote: 
> > In article <919fe330-a0dc-4784... at googlegroups.com>, 
> > "dthi... at gmail.com" <dthi... at gmail.com> writes: 
> >> VSI Fortran is pretty much just rebranded HPE Fortran (FORTRAN-95 
> >> standard, and not a complete implementation of it either). Later FORTRAN 
> >> standards (2003, 2008, 2108) have fully embraced object oriented code 
> >> practices and C interoperability. 
> > 
> > Isn't there supposed to be a much more modern, FLANG-based Fortran 
> > compiler from VSI (presumably only) on x86? 
> > 
> > If so, when?
> 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. 
> 
> Just guessing of course. 
> 
> Arne
flang isn't ready to be used yet.  It is part of the LLVM repo but at this point, it is just a frontend without any connection to LLVM