[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/20/2023 11:18 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.

Yes.

VSI is getting there.

Maybe not as fast as many of us wished for.

But steady progress.

Arne