[GCC] Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Re: [open-cobol-list] GCC front end for COBOL

[Robert Dewar]

> 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.