Re: VSI OpenVMS Webinar 6th June 2024 online

On Sun, 2024-06-16 at 13:44 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 6/16/2024 9:02 AM, Chris Townley wrote:

I just wondered how difficult it would be to port Gnat to VMS. The
Ada community seem to have lots of offerings - why not VMS X86?

 
Given that:
* Gnat is a big piece of software
* It is many versions back since it supported VMS
* Besides Gnat itself there may also be missing supporting software
then it is definitely non-trivial.
 
I suspect that the french that did the VMS Itanium port will
be better to quantify the work. 500 hours? 5000 hours? Or?
 
With the bad tradition in the VMS world the last 25 years
of being very interested in getting free stuff but not being
interested in contributing, then I don't see it happen.

LLVM has never supported VMS so unless VSI contributes open source
patches back to the LLVM folks for their compiliers, it ain't
happening.

GNU C/C++ might be easier to port, and entirely possible to cross
compile ADA for VMS via amd64.
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