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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2023 8:55 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 19:45 -0500, 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)?
>>
>> The last GCC version I have seen run on VMS is 2.8.0
>> (on VMS Alpha).
>>
>> And that is a let us call it "not latest and greatest".
> 
> Wow, jsut wow. 2.8.0? I remember my first time with Linux and GCC
> 2.7.2.3! And that was the late 90s!

2.8.0 is indeed from around that time (I don't remember exact year,
but some of the files are timestamped 1998).

$ typ test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
     printf("Hello world from C!\n");
     return 0;
}

$ gcc test.c
$ gcclink test
$ r test
Hello world from C!

If anybody has something newer then I am interested.

C++ seems to be broken. Not sure if it always has been
so or some update did that.

Arne