[Info-vax] Guess the VMS Basic for x86-64 release date

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 10:01:31 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/7/2023 9:56 PM, John Reagan wrote: 
> > We're actually trying to refresh other compilers this month as well. Too 
> > many things to keep track off including a fresh set of COBOL issues 
> > and working on the debugger & DWARF generation.
> Am I right in assuming that you have gotten more compiler error reports 
> since you released the x86-64 native compilers for field test to 
> hobbyists than the previous 20 years? 
> 
> Arne
Just 20 years?  Sure.  There hasn't been many major revisions since 2003.
However, I certainly remember large numbers of bugs from our first years
with GEM compilers (both with frontends not generating the correct GEM
IR and with GEM doing incorrect optmizations).  I can remember the early
days and Pascal having over 75 open bugs against it.  Today I think I have
5 or 6 (not counting the ones I know about that nobody has reported yet)