[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update
Single Stage to Orbit
alex.buell at munted.eu
Tue Feb 7 04:31:03 EST 2023
On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 22:26 +0000, Dan Cross wrote:
> > For clang, to bootstrap had to worry about headers since the Linux-
> > hosted compiler was
> > going to make objects that link on OpenVMS so even more RTL name
> > prefixes, etc. And
> > many (most?) of those headers from OpenVMS use pragmas we had to
> > add/extend.
>
> Oh, I'm sure it wasn't trivial, but the ability to plug into an
> existing cross-compilation framework is huge.
Yes, once you upstream the patches for OpenVMS on LLVM, we can very
easily port other things such as Rust. "Easily" is subjective though.
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