I disagree if you are speaking of a supported compiler for enterprise development. Of course hobbyists would like have it, but generally speaking are unwiilling to invest the time and/or effort needed to make it happen. There might be a case for a compiler with a Unix-like command line interface but that can be accomplished much easier with a wrapper around DECC.
I've heard rumors that Intel might do compiler maintenance at some future point on Itanium VMS.. If thats really the case, then there might be an opportunity for someone to propose Gcc instead, but who knows. Certainly there's quite a bit of work to do on Gnu C to enable it to handle all the VMSisms, e.g. pragma Pointer_Size for example. > HP might have a need to have this supported. A case could certainly be made to > have Gnu C/C++ available for the OpenVMS platform to enhance the viability of > the platform, I would think.
