Re: OpenVMS I64 Compilers (was: Re: Intel to chip away at Itanium prices <- or ... )

From: Hoff Hoffman (hoff_at_hp.nospam)
Date: 01/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:25:35 GMT

In article <bv41e5$qdq$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, JONESD@er6.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones) writes:

:I recall at one point they announced that VMS/IA64 would use the same format
:object files as UNIX (coff?), so keeping the compilers current should be a lot
:less difficult.

  OpenVMS is using the Intel Itanium Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)
  object file formats and the DWARF debugging support, and has worked with
  Intel to provide the extensions and the behaviours that match customer
  expectations and the OpenVMS calling standard requirements.

  The HP and Intel compiler teams and the HP OpenVMS Engineers (Language
  RTLs, Linker, ANALYZE/OBJECT, etc) are all keeping quite busy as part
  of their respective Itanium efforts, and the first externally-available
  (native) compilers are shipping for OpenVMS I64 V8.1; these tools produce
  and utilize Intel ELF/DWARF files.

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