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- From: brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Philip Brashear)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 08:42:40 -0400
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- As regards POSIX and validation, I believe Robert (Dewar) said that there
- is no validation suite/process for POSIX. However, in mid-1991, Jim Hall
- of the (U.S.) National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer
- Systems Laboratory announced a conformance testing policy for POSIX (FIPS
- 151-1, which was based upon IEEE 1003.1-1988. (I do not know if there
- have been updates.) The stes suite was developed by NIST/CSL and was
- "based on the test assertions specified by the IEEE 1003.3 working group
- on test methods." This is taken from POSIX Tracking Report, a quarterly
- report sponsored by Digital Equipment Corportation.
-
- Perhaps someone should check on the currency of this validation process,
- but there certainly was a validation suite and process for POSIX systems
- entering the U.S. Government's inventory.
-
- Phil Brashear
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