[Info-vax] MariaDB/MySQL on x86

[Craig A. Berry]

On 4/26/23 7:19 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-04-26, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/26/23 5:33 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>
>>> One of the annoyances with MariaDB-10 (and MySQL-6) is that they can
>>> only be built with C11 which is still not available on OpenVMS/Alpha
>>> or OpenVMS/Itanium
>> Not sure that will ever happen.  It's hard to see how VSI can afford to
>> continue to make major changes to the traditional front end on all
>> platforms while also keeping up with clang on x86.
>>
> 
> They don't need to change those front ends.
> 
> If you have existing DEC-specific code, use the DEC front ends that John
> is writing.
> 
> If you have industry-standard C or C++ code that needs modern compiler
> standards, then just call clang directly, instead of via one of the
> DEC front ends.

Which is no help at all for someone who just said, "C11 which is still
not available on OpenVMS/Alpha or OpenVMS/Itanium."  Unless someone with
a very large pile of cash wants to revive llvm-alpha and llvm-ia64.