[Info-vax] VMS x86-64 compilers

[Mark Daniel]

On 17/11/2023 05:41, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2023-11-16 kl. 20:04, skrev Craig A. Berry:
>> 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
>>
>> /DEFINE(WASD_VMS...
>>
>> be
>>
>> /DEFINE=(WASD_VMS...
>>
>> ?
> 
> It is, in the example on the forum post linked to above.

Apparently also a laxity in consistency :-)  Thanks J-E.

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