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

[Dan Cross]

In article <620e5870$0$701$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 2/17/2022 5:28 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <919fe330-a0dc-4784-bd2e-edea99790dc0n at googlegroups.com>,
>> "dthi... at gmail.com" <dthittner 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.

Not really. The old DEC GEM compilers were super cool.

>And since it will be LLVM based then it must be x86-64 only.

Why do you say that? Just in the sense that they won't
backport to OpenVMS/Itanium or Alpha?  LLVM has backends
for non-x86 architectures.  (If I were VSI, I'd be
getting a jump on ports to ARM and RISC-V now.)

	- Dan C.