Re: Ada83 to Ada9X Compatibility Tool in the PAL

[eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <conn.780911387@wuarchive.wustl.edu> conn@wuarchive.wustl.edu (Richard Conn) writes:

 > As a final test of the tool, the ACT was run against a version of the
 > Ada source code for the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
 > (AFATDS).  AFATDS consists of over 5 million lines of Ada source code.
 > It took only 10 minutes to set up the ACT for analyzing AFATDS. The ACT
 > then ran against AFATDS for 26 clock hours on a Sun Sparc 10, generating
 > a report over 500 pages long.  This report has been given to the PM of
 > AFATDS for his review and action.

   My first thought was that a tool which generates a 500 page report
is unusable.  But then I did the scaling: 5,000,000 lines/500 pages
equals 10,000 lines analyzed per page.  Not bad!  (Over 3000 lines per
minute is not to shabby either.)  I'll have to try it out on some less
imposing projects.


					Robert I. Eachus

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					Robert I. Eachus

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