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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: bad code suite? (Yes)
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Date: 15 Apr 88 16:24:34 GMT
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Summary: Pascal to a 0th approximation, if any one makes one, make it PD

The Pascal Validation Suite has a class of programs for handling some
errors, but it is a zero-th (0th) approximation.

I made a similar query a few months back about testing optimization
(how do you know what it does? -type of question).  The answer is
generally, we don't.  No such animals exist, but I did find an
interesting piece of testing software which I have to sign
non-disclosure to view.

I don't think a fixed suite of programs could test the things you want.
And I now know the head of 3090 compiler testing at IBM and they don't
have such a thing (yet).  All I can say, is that if you write or know
anybody writing such a thing, encourage them to put it in the public domain.

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