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

Hi, Paul,
 

 practically speaking, C90 is not used any more. I don't know a single actual project, which can be compiled with it. C99 is the oldest version of C where you still can find actively maintained code for. Most code today is C99 or C11 with GNU extensions. And we already have C18.
 

 So if there is a compiler for C90 it will not be possible to compile much of today's software with it.
 

 The good news is there's a community wanting to port modern software including compilers to MVS and z/OS. Our problem is we do not have access to machines where we can do this. The solutions from the IBM seem not to be made for us.
 

 You're right, because we're dependent on LE we cannot use MVS 3.8J. The Perl guys need way more memory, especially for their testing environment. Even the VM we're renting from the IBM frequently crashed when they were executing their tests delivering out of memory errors. And there is more dependencies we all have: many GNU software is depending on POSIX API as I said. It cannot be build without.
 

 To support MVS 3.8J with Free Software these things would be required as a minimum base:

 

 1) a port of actual LLVM or GCC
 2) libc and a POSIX library
 

 On the zPDT topic: I saw this thing. Beside the high price it would force me to carry a second laptop personally, because it's not available for the Macintosh like Hercules (which I'm running there). But what I'm searching for now is a solution, which can not only be used by myself but by many people in the Free Software community, so porting software can be possible.
 

 Yours,
 VB.