[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Andreas Gruhl]

John Reagan schrieb am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2023 um 21:16:56 UTC+1:
> On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 2:17:58 PM UTC-5, Craig A. Berry wrote: 
> > On 2/28/23 10:38 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > > On 2/27/2023 10:35 PM, John Reagan wrote: 
> > >> By the way, thanks to all the folks who've beat up on the native C 
> > >> compiler so far. And while we've 
> > >> been discussing these fine topics here on c.o.v, the native Fortran 
> > >> compiler is about to appear. :) 
> > > 
> > > So C, C++ and Fortran are out (I have seen questions related to both C 
> > > and C++). 
> > > 
> > > Cobol, Pascal and Basic to go. In that order? Maybe 3 months a piece? 
> > Your guess is probably better than mine, but don't forget these are 
> > field test releases and it's probably the same people fixing things in 
> > existing compilers and working on the new ones. There might be a pause 
> > where they fix all the gem2ir stuff that has come up with C and Fortran 
> > before moving on to the other compilers. But then hopefully the later 
> > compilers will be easier because more problems with the underpinnings 
> > have already been shaken out.
> Not sure on the cadence. And yes, we're shaking things out right now especially 
> with regards to debugging information, impact on optimizations (we're still working 
> in that area), etc. I'll point out that the frontend for the Fortran compiler (written in C) 
> is compiled on OpenVMS x86 with the native C compiler. We're "eating our own 
> dogfood" as it were. And yes, we have native BLISS compilers too. 
> 
> I sure hope I don't accidentally cut-n-paste into the wrong window... 
> 
> PASCAL$ write sys$output f$getsyi("arch_name") 
> x86_64 
> PASCAL$ pascal/vers 
> VSI Pascal x86-64 X6.3-136 (50X2D) on OpenVMS x86-64 V9.2 
> PASCAL$ pascal hw 
> PASCAL$ link hw 
> PASCAL$ run hw 
> hello world 10 
> PASCAL$
Hey, that looks great. Please give me more.
Andreas