RE: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: NIST testsuite

[William M. K. <wm...@ix...>]

I used to have a copy of the printed instructions (from Micro Focus days).
I'll check my "old paper files" to see if I can find them.

Don Schricker the J4 chair says that he knows who at EDS is *supposed* to be
a contact for running the validation suite currently.  You might want to
contact Don and see if he can give you a contact to get the instructions.
(I am CC'ing him on this note - in case he has information EASILY
available).

P.S.  I know that "you all" aren't actually going for "validation" - but are
you aware of the ANSI vs FIPS differences? The two major ones that come to
mind are:

 A) flagging requirements (what is flagged and what needs to be included)
 B) Is Intrinsic Function required or Optional for High-level subset

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cob...@li...
> [mailto:cob...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim
> Josling
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 5:48 PM
> To: David Essex
> Cc: Fred Mobach; cobolforgcc-devel
> Subject: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: NIST testsuite
>
>
> David,
>
> I had am email from them saying that we were welcome to use the
> test suite for testing our compilers. But there does not seem to
> be any doco.
>
> The way it is structured is that the first program is a program
> that extracts the other programs. You need to provide various
> parameters to guide the first program. I didn't get any further
> than that. You will need to reverse engineer the parameter
> details from the source.
>
> Tim Josling
>
> David Essex wrote:
> >
> > Hi Fred, Tim,
> >
> > At 04:22 PM 22/03/01, Fred Mobach wrote:
> > > ...
> > >While you are on this topic, can anyone give me some information on the
> > >test suite from NIST ?
> > >I have it here but I can't find so much information.
> >
> > Besides the COBOL programs, I could not find any information either.
> >
> > Tim, since you have been in touch with these people. Is there
> any further
> > information available some where ?
> >
> > David
>
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