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From: rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Compiling Emacs for VMS
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Date: 16 Nov 88 04:27:16 GMT
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It does not work to compile Emacs with GCC on VMS,
because Emacs on VMS contains numerous changes to make it work with DEC C
and these changes are undesirable for GCC.

I think someone knowledgeable is working on fixing these problems
and perhaps version 19 will solve them.