support for omvs

[Edward S. Peschko]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:24:12PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:

> 	GCC did support z/OS Unix System Service, aka Open Edition, but
> the support has been deprecated because that configuration was not being
> maintained. 


The main reason I would want it is to compile a gnu toolset there - unfortunately,
the c++ compiler doesn't support '.cc' as an extension, and has various shortcomings.
Is there is a patchset for OMVS that makes the gcc toolset compile cleanly
with the native compiler? Or maybe a list of packages which successfully compile
on omvs?

Its really surprising to me that its not being maintained - is there a group 
internal to IBM which supports the omvs port, and if so are they maintaining a 
set of gnu tools?

> 	You can get an older, working version from
> 
> http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/gcc.html

when you say working, does it support the things I mentioned (ie: mainframe file
format linking, support for ebcdic, etc)? 

Ed

(ps - thanks for the link.. I'll play around with it..)