[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 7/15/2022 2:04 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-15, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, July 15, 2022 at 10:29:25 AM UTC-4, John Dallman wrote:
>>> In article <b53f8203-ba59-4b84... at googlegroups.com>,
>>> xyzz... at gmail.com (John Reagan) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, I plan to put a native assembler on the system too (along with
>>>> most of the other LLVM tools that fall out of the LLVM build).
>>> Presumably work will be required to provide headers for VMS system
>>> services?
>>>
>>> John
>> All of those headers in SYS$STARLET_C.TLB are built by SDL and really
>> don't have any LLVM dependencies.  We have been making changes to
>> some of the headers that check for DECC and DECCXX that now need to
>> also check for __clang__ for the C++ field test, but the rest of them should
>> be fine.
> 
> Based on how he wrote it, I took that as meaning wanting to call VMS
> system services from native assembler code.

Yeah, people do funny stuff, sometimes just for fun.

Like the time I wrote a rudimentary disk defragger in BASIC.

Yes, it worked, but it had no blade guards, since I wasn't taking out
any of the file system locks.

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		-- Rob