[Info-vax] Alternative _legal_ operating systems for VAX ?

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Wed Jan 5 13:45:09 EST 2022


On 2022-01-05, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> NetBSD/vax have been suffering from a gcc that generates bad code for 
> some situations for quite a while, making the who system somewhat 
> unstable and totally unable to rebuild itself natively for about 10 
> years at least.
>

Do you happen to know what the OpenBSD people used for a compiler
when OpenBSD still supported the VAX architecture ?

Did they have some custom gcc patches or was it an earlier version
of gcc they used to build the OpenBSD VAX installation kit ?

Simon.

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