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From: jb@peren.UUCP (John Benito)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ANSI/STD C test suites
Summary: Clarification
Keywords: ANSI C, test suites
Message-ID: <107@peren.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 91 21:23:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.231310.22186@smsc.sony.com> <676835142.5259@mindcraft.com>
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In article <676835142.5259@mindcraft.com>, karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
> In article <1991Jun12.231310.22186@smsc.sony.com> tin@smsc.sony.com
> >  ANSI C Validation suites available from:
> >	POSIX Conformance Test Suite, U.S. Government
> >	...
 
> The NIST-PCTS does, for the most part, only identification-level
> testing of C library functions, and that only for the subset of the
> > C library that's specified by POSIX.1.
Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com

The NIST-PCTS is not an ANSI C Validation Suite.
The NIST has selected an ANSI C Validation Suite.
Those interested should contact NIST. 


John Benito			
jb@peren.com