[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-02-20 kl. 15:35, skrev Craig A. Berry:
> 
> On 2/20/23 6:11 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 
>> There is an ongoing effort to port LLVM to VMS to get native
>> compiler support, but with the existing language front-ends in
>> addition to clang etc, correct?  Where is that work happening?
> 
> At VSI, obviously.  There have been numerous public presentations about
> what is being done and how it is being done.  The head of the compiler
> group chimes in here pretty frequently with updates and explanations.  I
> believe the clang++ port is in field test.  The customer portal now has
> a download of "VSI C X7.4-725" (a different compiler from the clang++
> compiler).

Note that the whole WASD web server now has been built native
using that C compiler. No major issues, as far as I undestood
from the post from the maintainer about it.