[Info-vax] Kernel Transplantation (was: Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

[John Dallman]

In article <unsa8a$3jmr7$1 at dont-email.me>, seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
(Stephen Hoffman) wrote:

> And that next port after x86-64 gets somewhat easier, 
> should LLVM support be available on the target platform.

LLVM is highly retargetable, and supports a large range of target
architectures. It's by far the most-used compiler for ARM64 (since it's
what iOS and Android use) and supports RISC-V. It's also displaced IBM's
own compilers on AIX, and is the system compiler for FreeBSD and some
OpenBSD architectures. 

New architectures that aim to be usable for general-purpose computing
have to support at least one of GCC and LLVM, and supporting LLVM is
easier, since its code is newer and much better-structured. 

John