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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66752102482bbdca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Required Metrics Date: 2000/05/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 618033900 References: <5DDO4.2237$wb7.194854@news.flash.net> <8ek4ea$5ta$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 957221281 216.215.84.202 (Mon, 01 May 2000 17:48:01 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:48:01 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:8ek4ea$5ta$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > In article <5DDO4.2237$wb7.194854@news.flash.net>, > "Ken Garlington" wrote: > > In the Ada Reference Manual, paragraphs D.8:37-45 states that "The > > implementation shall document" a series of metrics related to the > ... > > details of that configuration." However, although my compiler's > > reference manual claims that "The real-time systems annex is fully > > implemented", it goes on to say " Information on metrics is not yet > > available." Does a compiler fully implement the real-time systems > > annex if it does not meet the documentation requirements? > > I remember asking almost this exact question here about a year and a > half ago. You can search deja for the thread. But the answer I remember > getting was that since there is (and can be) no test in the Ada > validation test suite for documentation requirements, implementors can > pretty much get away with murder here. I'm not surprised, but I don't think it really answers my question. The issue isn't, in my mind, "How easy is it for vendors to ignore certain requirements?". It's "Is there really a requirement?" (See my response to Tucker's post for more...)