Re: VSI compiler webinar

On 3/28/2025 3:24 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2025-03-27, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Are there any non-VSI compilers using GEM? Kednos PL/I? Synergex DBL?

 I wonder what happened to the Synergex discussions ?
 I don't know if the VMS Synergex users have moved to another platform
by now, but certainly up to a few years ago, I can imagine there would
be a good number of those users who would seriously consider moving
their applications to x86-64 VMS.

I have not heard anything about DBL since 1-2-3 years ago it was
stated that they had no plans to port to VMS x86-64.
I assume that they still support VMS Alpha and VMS Itanium.
I don't even know if they use GEM, but given that DEC sold to
them in 1993 when Alpha existed, then it is a possibility that
they use GEM and could benefit of the GEM to LLVM + LLVM
backend, *if* they were to port to VMS x86-64.
Strategically I think Synergex is betting on DBL for .NET (so
a port of .NET to VMS x86-64 would get DBL).
Arne