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ACE C VALIDATION SUITE

ACE, a prominent european UNIX software house, is pleased to
announce  that  their  C Validation Suite, already in use at
several major computer companies, is now commercially avail-
able.

The ACE C Validation suite checks the compliance of a C com-
piler  to  the ANSI X3J11 draft standard.  This includes the
machine independent part of the library specification.

The ACE Validation Suite can also test library functions for
conformance  to  the X/OPEN standard or the SVID where these
differ from their draft standard counterparts.

The suite supports the validation of cross-compilers.

The suite consists of over 50000 lines of  source  in  about
600  different programs together performing over 2000 tests.
Tests include checks for known problems in several  existing
C compilers.

The structure of the validation suite closely  follows  that
of  the  ANSI  draft, that is, all test for a specific para-
graph of the draft are grouped together in one directory.

The suite is updated frequently to maintain  conformance  to
the ANSI draft standard, and is continuously being extended.

A user-friendly interface is available to control the  vali-
dation.   This  interface  makes  it  easy  to  to  run only
selected parts of the suite and to set  parameters  such  as
compiler  and  loader flags.  Other options include control-
ling the "verboseness" of the output and automatically  com-
paring the output to a reference (e.g. a previous validation
run).

The ACE C Validation suite is priced at 15500 dutch guilders
(currently approximately $7500).

If you would like more information please contact Ge Gaal at
the address below, or via electronic mail at:

info@ace.nl or ..!uunet!mcvax!ace!info

ACE Associated Computer Experts bv
Van Eeghenstraat 100
1071 GL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel int: +31 20 646416
telex : 11702 (ace nl)
facs : +31 20 750389