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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-01-05 19:45, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

Earlier version. NetBSD used to be better as well, but later versions of 
gcc introduced new problems on the VAX side. Which haven't been 
addressed until recently.

Also, not sure if OpenBSD ever got around to dynamic linking and other 
stuff on VAX. NetBSD did get there, but I'm not sure if anyone else 
picked that up.

   Johnny