[Info-vax] VMS x86-64 compilers

[Mark Daniel]

On 17/11/2023 05:34, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 11/16/23 12:30 PM, Mark Daniel wrote:
>> On 16/11/2023 22:52, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Looks like new versions of C, Pascal and Fortran has just been released.
>>>
>>> Arne
>>
>> $ X86VMS$ cc/version
>> VSI C x86-64 X7.4-843 (GEM 50XB9) on OpenVMS x86_64 V9.2-1
>> $ CC /DECC /STAND=RELAXED_ANSI /PREFIX=ALL /NAMES=AS_IS /OPTIMIZE
>> /NODEBUG /WARNING=(NOINFORM,DISABLE=(PREOPTW)) /FLOAT=IEEE /IEEE=DENORM
>> /DEFINE(WASD_VMS_V7,SESOLA,WATCH_CAT=1,WATCH_MOD=0,WASD_ACME=1,WASD_GETSPI=1)
>> /OBJ=[.obj_X86_64]Error    Error.c
>> LLVM ERROR: Cannot encode high byte register in REX-prefixed instruction
>>
>> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=8900
>>
> 
> The error is strange, but shouldn't

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> /DEFINE(WASD_VMS...
> 
> be
> 
> /DEFINE=(WASD_VMS...
> 
> ?

And indeed it is.  Laxity in cut-n-paste-n-realign from an 80 column 
terminal.  My regrets.

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