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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2022 10:12 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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.

The cost.

>> 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.)

I don't see flang/LLVM support Itanium or Alpha.

Maybe ARM or RISC-V some day in the future.

Arne