[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-11-15, Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell at munted.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 14:07 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-11-15, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Monday, November 14, 2022 at 2:06:28 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley
>> > wrote:
>> > 
>> > > And now you need a C++17 compiler to be able to build LLVM
>> > > itself...
>> > > Simon. 
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I think only C++14 at the moment.  There has been talk of going to
>> > C++17 in the next release but that hasn't been decided yet.
>> 
>> Interesting. A few months ago, they made the C++17 requirement a hard
>> requirement:
>> 
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D130689
>> 
>> Did they reverse this change ?
>
> It looks like they are still working on it. It does not look like that
> has been merged yet.

Thanks. When this was reported, it was presented as a done thing.
I see there's been some pushback since then.

Of course, if they were following a reasonable upgrade schedule, they,
IMHO, wouldn't even be talking about moving to C++17 for another year or two.

Simon.

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