On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, Matthew R. Wilson wrote:
On 04.02.2025 00:44, Sam James wrote:
The original stance of the COBOL maintainers was that they're only
really interested in arm64 + x86_64, at least at first(?).
I think we've succeeded in somewhat changing their mind, or at
least in convincing them to accept changes that make porting to
other targets easier (some of this is free while porting to GCC
conventions and so on).
That's good -- given the broad set of platforms GCC is used on,
adding a language such as COBOL for only x86_64 and arm64 seems like
it wouldn't be quite ready for merging into a release yet. (I
know...I need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the Real
World where x86_64 and arm64 covers the vast majority of what people
care about these days.)
I would hope that there was interest in s/390 and/or zSeries
since (I assume) there is another COBOL compiler to compare with.
Yes, I know that getting access to such machines wont be trivial.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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