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

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On Mon, 2023-09-04 at 19:21 -0500, 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.

Spot on. This is what I call bootstrapping.

> > 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.

All that'll be fixed in time. 
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