Re: Slightly off-topic: development machine for z/OS wanted

---In [email protected], <bumens@...> wrote :

> we're a free software project.

BTW, everything I have been doing for the last
nearly 2 decades is specifically with this goal
in mind - providing an environment for freeware
products to be ported to.

Is your code C90-compliant? There are two
C90-compliant compilers available for MVS 3.8J,
one of them the one that I distribute, which is
GCCMVS.

If your code is not C90-compliant, how much
effort would it take to make it C90-compliant?
It would be good if the source code by
default was C90-compliant. If you're just
taking some input files and producing some
output files, you should be able to do all
that in C90.

I have made minor modifications to things like
bison and diffutils to make them work on MVS.
Source code for those changes is available
in the SEASIK package.

I believe I have created a good template for
freeware development. You can even run your
software in AMODE 32, something not
available on z/OS. ie you have a normal
32-bit platform available, able to address up
to 4 GiB of memory, just as nature intended.

BFN. Paul.