From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 07:40:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!titan03.ksc.nasa.gov!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!usenet From: "Stanley R. Allen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an interested business-oriented programmer Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:36:35 -0500 Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center Message-ID: <3B1F9173.C7D51A74@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> References: <3B1EED20.C607AB28@worldnet.att.net> <3B1F09F8.A6521EEF@PublicPropertySoftware.com> <9fo0u4$nrb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Reply-To: Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sstf-fw.jsc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.2 IP19) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8323 Date: 2001-06-07T09:36:35-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > Annex F is "normative" which, if I understand correctly, means its basically > a requirement for validation. (I'll probably get hit over the head for > that!) I'd suspect that all conforming implementations would have it if they > are targeted to a general-purpose computer. You wouldn't much need it if you > were running on an embedded machine - unless maybe it was a > bank-teller-machine? > "Normative" in this context means that it provides a norm (standard) -- it does not mean that the validation of a compiler is dependent on implementing the annex. It means that if a compiler creator DOES provide Annex F, that the validation of that annex must meet the standard's definition in order for Annex F to be so noted in the validation. Other annexes (K, L, & M for example) are "informative" -- they don't provide extra 'normative' requirements beyond what was given elsewhere in the standard. Q.V. RM95 1.1.2 (http://www.ada-auth.org/~acats/arm-html/RM-1-1-2.html) -- Stanley Allen mailto:Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com