[Info-vax] Technical issues with VMS BASIC port to x86-64 ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/20/2024 1:27 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> I am curious, at a purely technical level, about the issues that VSI
> have encountered with porting BASIC to x86-64 VMS and what the issues
> are, at a technical level, that is making the port of BASIC apparently
> much more complex than the other traditional VMS languages.

Most of what has been revealed over the last couple of years relate
to map/common/psect handling and G2L.

But I am no longer convinced that Basic is so much late, because
it is so "much more complex".

I suspect Basic is mostly so much late, because it was the last to
do and that there has been found a large number of bugs found in
the compilers released earlier that has taken most of the available
compiler resource hours. I simply suspect that Basic has been delayed
because John and the rest of the team has been busy fixing bugs in
the C, C++, Fortran and Pascal compilers.

Arne