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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards
Date: 1996/04/16
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Believe it or not, Robert Dewar wrote these two sentences in the
same post:

> ...the point is that Brian's test generator does not test any
> features not tested pretty thoroughly in the ACVC suite.

> We certainly plan to use this tool in testing GNAT.

Sounds like either (1) a waste of money, given that the ACVC tests
these features thoroughly, or (2) a good idea for all compiler vendors
to do. 

Perhaps some mechanism could be devised to encourage or
require _all_ vendors to use this tool. (Nah - how could we
ever get all vendors to agree to use some common measure of
compiler quality? It's insane! Except for the ACVC, of course...)

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