From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada on openvms for alpha
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:10:16 GMT
Date: 2014-10-26T11:10:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sE43w.496745$GP4.73819@fx15.fr7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lylho48k1v.fsf@pushface.org
On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:29:00 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
> Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> writes:
>
>> David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For example, I don't have the interest nor am I the expert, but some
>>> one that wanted to a make a few dollars should be able to roll this
>>> guy an openVMS alpha of at least an older version of GNAT that will
>>> work. I am sure he would be will to pay for it.
>>>
>>>
>> Don't quote me on this but I'm fairly sure the VMS packages are not in
>> the FSF tree.
>
> GCC 4.9.1 has 58 files with *vms* in the name in gcc/ada. For example,
> mlib-tgt-specific-vms-alpha.adb, mlib-tgt-specific-vms-ia64.adb
And the alpha backend still looks to be there in gcc/config/alpha .
If nobody's built it in that configuration for years there's likely to be
some bit-rot, but it may be recoverable with a bit (probably quite a lot)
of work.
- Brian
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-24 16:20 Ada on openvms for alpha brbarkstrom
2014-10-24 17:40 ` Shark8
2014-10-24 18:47 ` David Botton
2014-10-25 9:23 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-25 11:29 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-26 11:10 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2014-10-26 13:02 ` Simon Clubley
2014-10-24 20:19 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-25 2:31 ` Simon Clubley
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2014-10-25 16:35 Ada on openvms for Alpha Eugen Wintersberger
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