[Info-vax] Rendez-vous autour de VMS" of January 31 2023 report

[bill]

On 2/18/2023 8:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/18/2023 8:14 PM, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <tsrrf3$5qhq$6 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>> wrote:
>>> On 2/18/2023 6:17 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 14:30 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> And honestly I don't see Ada make the cut.
>>>> I don't think that will be an issue, as the GNU compiler suite has
>>>> that, and once it's been ported, that will be good enough.
>>> But will GCC be ported to VMS (again)?
>>
>> Not apparently necessary. AdaCore are working on their LLVM backend for
>> GNAT <https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm>. Using this on VMS would
>> require VMS to be using an up-to-date LLVM, but that's presumably on the
>> agenda.
> 
> That would avoid the need for GCC.
> 
> But I don't expect ACT to reinstate VMS support.
> 
> So someone will need to take the GNAT LLVM stuff and
> the VSI LLVM stuff and make it all work on VMS.
> 
> Maybe it will happen. Maybe not.
> 
> Do you know if the GNAT LLVM thingy will generated binaries
> with dependencies on GPL'ed stuff without linking exception
> like normal GNAT GPL?
> 

Sounds nice to have an Ada compiler on VMS but don't most of the
people using Ada other than hobbyists require it to be a validated
compiler?

bill