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---In [email protected], <bumens@...> wrote :
> I don't know how you could “have spent half of
> your life waiting to meet” me.
More than half in fact.
> I'm leading one Free Software organization.
> There's many. And there is the Free Software
> Foundation itself – is it them you wanted to talk to?
There's no-one specific. It's just the fact
that so much software written in C doesn't
have a C90 build option by default, and
instead has Unix extensions hardcoded.
> They're easily reachable. Just send them a mail:
> https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/
I have spent my life trying to get a C90
compiler available for MVS. I released a
major improvement - GCCMVS 3.2.3 v 9.0,
a week ago. I have been focused on ensuring
C90 is implemented to my satisfaction on
MVS before reaching out to anyone. In fact
it was the Info-zip people I was going to reach
out to, because I noticed in their documentation
that they no longer supported an MVS target
because they didn't have access to MVS.
The MVS platform that I produce is called
MVS/380 and I'm still not satisfied with that
before reaching out to the Info-zip people
and maybe more people.
But you're already here, so I'll talk to you now
instead. :-)
> Quickly, we ended up with the people from
> the Perl project asking us for help. They've
> got no mainframe to port their software, too.
Why can't the Perl people use the free MVS 3.8J
and port their software to that?
> Do you know any? We would need C and C++ with
> Language environment as well as either PL/I or
> COBOL (or both) to test.
MVS 3.8J has C (two compilers), I think no
C++, no LE, plus old versions of both PL/I
and Cobol. So maybe its not viable for your
specific project. But what about Perl etc?
Do they need LE?
I'm mainly interested in starting by getting
projects written in C ported to MVS. I haven't
yet reached the point of attempting to switch
on C++ in GCC.
For your specific project, is there a reason you
don't want to use a bootleg z/OS to do your
coding? I don't think IBM will care about that.
Regardless, z/OS can be purchased as part
of zPDT for a once-off cost of something like
US$10,000, which is what you were expecting
to pay for 2 years of rental.
BFN. Paul.