Re: Aeonix Ada 95

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

In article <dewar.858351614@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

  > This reminds me of a question that Phillipe Kruchten asked me,
  > back in his prerational days when he worked on the Ada-Ed project
  > at NYU.

  Hmmm... Phillipe wasn't rational when he was at NYU?  ;-)

  > He asked if he could be validated as an Ada 83 compiler. He proposed to
  > look at each C test, think for a bit, and then say Passed!

  If he could pass the B-tests, I'd be willing to give him a
certificate.  (For those who have never dealt with the ACVC, the
B-tests are--in 1.x--about 1000 test which not only require you to
find every error at compile time, but to diagnose it correctly.  Some
tests have/had hundreds of errors. Every compiler vendor I know spent
most of their effort during validation getting the B-tests right.
Most of the rest was spent on C-tests, and A,D,E and L collectively
accounted for at most 1-2% of the effort.)

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					Robert I. Eachus

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