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Re: [GCC] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, trevor dot jenkins at suneidesis dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:06:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [GCC] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL
> There is a COBOL test suite available from NIST or whatever they call
> themselves nowadays. The suite is supposed to cover ANSI X3.23-1985, ISO
> 1989-1985, ANSI X3.23a-1989 and ANSI X3.23b-1993.
It is quite a comprehensive and useful suite (I speak perhaps as the only
person to been one of the key technical compiler people for both a COBOL
validation [with Realia COBOL, now sold by CA] and Ada [Alsys and GNAT] :-)
We definitely found for Realia that it found a lot of problems, if you can
get through this test suite, you are in very good shape.