[Info-vax] MariaDB/MySQL on x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/26/2023 12:14 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.

I don't know if VSI has officially stated it, but when I saw
that Alpha and Itanium would not get 9.x, then my conclusion
was that:
- VSI will support Alpha and Itanium to run what is running
   on them today - whatever was created 20-30 years ago will
   continue to run for many years to come
- anyone wanting major new VMS or VMS LP functionality for
   new stuff will need to migrate to x86-64

Arne