[Info-vax] VSI C/C++ compiler for OpenVMS expired yesterday!

[John Reagan]

On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 8:21:04 PM UTC-4, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 9/4/23 6:12 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > On 9/4/2023 5:19 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote: 
> 
> >> But C++ is not part of the toolchain, at least not that I've ever heard 
> >> of.  And I doubt if much of the C code in VMS would compile with clang 
> >> without modifications. 
> > 
> > LLVM is C++ so on x86-64 I would consider C++ part of the VMS toolchain 
> > (strictly speaking toolchain to build toolchain, but ...).
> Good point. I was thinking about what the OS itself is written in, but 
> I neglected the fact that you've got to have C++ to build LLVM to build 
> the C, BLISS, and MACRO compilers that build the OS.
> > I hope they will soon start doing native builds of VMS. 
> > 
> > They could start with just the Math RTL.
> ... which might fix the infinities not working on x86 that I posted 
> about a few days ago. Or that could be compiler problems or various 
> other things.

Yeah, we're still dealing with some of that plus the exception mode feature used by
the math RTL to determine the exception behavior (some languages want different
behavior) is only just being fixed.