[Info-vax] VMS x86-64 Cobol is out (field test)

[John Reagan]

On Friday, September 8, 2023 at 11:36:31 AM UTC-4, Jonathan wrote:
> On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 9:47:30 PM UTC-4, John Reagan wrote: 
> > On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 9:59:15 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > > On 9/5/2023 7:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > > > John Reagan just announced: 
> > > > 
> > > > https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=8831 
> > > Now we just need Basic among the native languages. 
> > > 
> > > Arne 
> > It is in the oven
> With working /separate?
I was afraid someone would ask about that. :)

We had stubbed out /SEPARATE for Fortran, COBOL (and BASIC) as the LLVM 3.4.2
used by the cross-compilers didn't have a good interface for multiple compilation
units per object file.  The much newer LLVM we use for the native compilers now has
sufficient support but we haven't hooked it up yet.

I used to think that without /SEPARATE you just got larger images full of dead code
but I now appreciate that you might have to change your link commands to find additional
dead code to link into your application when the first bunch of dead code now wants to
reference other code.

Let me go make sure the ticket is on the list.

John