[FreeVMS] Question about FreeVMS qemu image

[Renee]

Could we duplicate the front end of the bliss compiler for this? I feel terrible but compilers were not my thing at all. 

I have written a generic letter to Oracle sales. They did develop a Windows bliss compiler. I am trying to track that down but I admit - fat chance. I've tried before.

Renee

-----Original Message-----
From: FreeVMS [mailto:freevms-bounces at rayleigh.systella.fr] On Behalf Of Matthew Veety
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [FreeVMS] Question about FreeVMS qemu image

On Sep 25, 2013, at 10:26, BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand at systella.fr> wrote:
> 
> Renee wrote:
>> I am in the process of moving. I am a former VMS developer. I wrote 
>> to ask what languages you are using. If it's C, VMS developers HATED C.
>> I would like to help/join the effort but I would recommend Bliss.
> 
>    I think that we have to build a kernel (or a set of servers in L4 paradigm) that is portable. I'm not sure that bliss is good enough to reach this goal. I'm not sure there is somewhere a open sourced bliss compiler that is stable and usable. And I'm not sure that there are bliss developers enough to start this project with bliss.
> 
>    That being said, I know that VMS users hate C. But I don't know why we cannot use a subset of C functionalities to cut of all "hatable" functionalities.
> 
>    Regards,
> 
>    JKB

Bliss doesn't look terribly hard to parse. We could write one. It could output gas or nasm syntax. Compilers aren't a big deal to write. 

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Veety
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