From: "Iain Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

IainB> 1) I am in the process of porting the OpenSSL source to
IainB> 
IainB>  IBM Visual Age for C++ for AS/400
IainB> 
IainB> This compiler has the intriguing property that it will only
IainB> compile C++ code. There is no "plain old C" option!

Uhmm, most C++ compilers are that way.  Microsofts stuff is blatantly
(and idiotically, IMHO) different on this point...

IainB> The initial compile produced 550+ compile errors (unsurprisingly).
IainB> 
IainB> I have now reduced this count to zero, although the code has
IainB> not yet been tested..
IainB> 
IainB> Is this work of interest to the OpenSSL developers? I have made
IainB> changes to, at a guess, 200 source files.

I'm a taker of such a thing...

IainB> 2) I have ported the source to the SAS C/C++ compiler for the
IainB> IBM S/390 (also compiles but not yet tested). This compiler
IainB> also has a quirk;  all library modules names have to be unique
IainB> in the first 7 characters. This also imposes several changes to
IainB> the OpenSSL Sources.

Ouch, that might be a tough one.

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