[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

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On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 18:49 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > LLVM supports x86_64 and ELF out the box, so I imagine the truly
> > hard
> > bits wil be the bindings to OpenVMS calls and data structures.
> 
> I suspect that there is a bit more to get a LLVM based compiler
> working on VMS x86-64 than that.
> 

Probably. That was just hand-wavey bits. VSI is working on using LLVM
for their compilers, yes? 
                                                               
> > Async
> > and locking primitives will need to be implemented, that won't be
> > easy.
> 
> Isn't async build on top of threads?

Perhaps, I'm still not an expert Rust coder yet. 
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